International Competition

Peter is filmmaker Johanna Wagner’s father, a likeable hermit whose flat is full of old radios. Peter is depressed. He sees himself in melancholy defense against the great wide world outside with its epidemic proliferation of digital sounds. This is manifested, among other things, by the fact that he has tuned his various analogue radios to only one station each: one radio station, one receiving station. After all, he really needs only half a dozen wavelengths at most. Analogue radio signals are transmitted as continuous airwaves that are, however, susceptible to interference. For anyone who grew up in the pre-digital age of radio, it was a natural part of this cultural technique to get up from time to time and adjust the tuning of the selected program. The melancholic little radioland that Peter has built in his flat keeps him on the move.