An ode to diversity in the void of light.
A journey to the meaning of the dark.
A film poem about one of the oldest companions of our existence.
Six people reveal their own interpretation of the perfect black and their search for it.
Eike Günther is an astrophysicist specializing in the discovery of Earth-like planets – he can define the perfect black, but never find it. After all, the echo of the Big Bang is everywhere. He is part of the SPP 1992 Outreach Team.
In the depths of our oceans, where no light falls, there is life. Marine biologist Antje Boetius is exploring it. She feels at home in the black depths.
It is the moment when people drop their masks, says tattoo artist Gerhard Wiesbeck, coloring an area of skin black with a tattoo needle.
Synesthesiologists can link colors with sounds. Katja Krüger has this ability and as a musician she can make her perfect black audible.
Dorothea Stockmar is an artist and trained grief counselor. She says the perfect black is important because it gives contour to everything.
The art printer Dieter Kirchner searched for years until he found his black in an obsidian stone. Against this background, he makes images stand out in his prints.
What is the perfect black? Perhaps Tom Fröhlich’s film leaves this question open, but one suspects: it is one of the oldest companions of our existence.
And where better to reflect on the meaning of perfect black than in the cinema? That dark cave that protects us from the outside.
Director and writer: Tom Fröhlich
Production: Jürgen Kleinig
A trailer can be found here. Click here for the website.