The fictions of biographical securities are shaken by a fortune teller’s encounter with an edited picture of the young Mozart. What life will be predicted for this man? Exposing an illusion is also the chance to see a new, different image. This ironic short film is one of many miniatures made by Austrian filmmakers in the Mozart anniversary year of 2006. In actual fact, it discusses one of the essential questions in Beckermann’s work: what is a just image and can it be produced at all?

Patrick Holzapfel