Pascal Klewer: „there is no such thing as altruism“

In the organizer's words:

20:00 I Film I 🎥 JAKI

An attempt at honest reflection - a film by Pascal Klewer

Dependence and demarcation, one's own position in a system that shows itself openly, but structurally often allows nothing.

The feeling of constantly having to represent something, even if you no longer know whether you are anything at all.

Trumpets break, bodies freeze.
Monologues revolve around themselves, repeat themselves, shift.
It is not an answer, not a statement, not a solution.
Rather an exploration of voids.

Of stagnation, of anger, of questions like:
Who actually benefits from what?
And: how much of this am I myself?

A montage of documentary material, staged body images and urban spaces through the filter of depression.

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Pascal Klewer (born 1997) is a musician/composer and lives in Cologne.
He has worked with/conducted the WDR Bigband, the Pascal Klewer Bigband, numerous productions for Deutschlandfunk, organizes concert series and festivals (Pascal Klewer Bigband meets, Monday Meetings, 222 Festivals), runs his own label for contemporary music (stssts records), has won the New German Jazz Prize for Composition, the Composition Prize of the Federal Jazz Orchestra and various composition prizes from the state of Hesse.

As a soloist and sideman, he has played at the Handel Festival, among others, is part of award-winning ensembles such as the Aurora Octet (Nom. German Jazz Award 2025, Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award 2023), Fallen Crooner (Kathrin Prize 2023) and various ensembles of Simon Nabatov and composes/produces film music for "die Story" in the first ((Blackbox Belarus 2025, Moldova 2023, Belarus 2022).