Rosefeldt's projections, video collages and photo series are mysterious and multi-layered; they deal with surreal and dystopian themes. His delight in quoting and reinterpreting motifs from popular culture, film and television history permeates his entire oeuvre. The four films selected from different eras reflect key influences on his work.

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2001: A Space Odyssey OmU (1968, Director: Stanley Kubrick) Kubrick's science fiction masterpiece is still influential today - its iconic visual language has lost none of its impact 57 years after its creation. “I have always bowed down to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey in my work,” says Julian Rosefeldt.

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Night on Earth (1991, Director: Jim Jarmusch) Between melancholy and comedy, Jarmusch's globe-spanning episodic film unfolds an atmosphere that lingers for a long time - carried by Tom Waits' music and an unforgettable cast. Rosefeldt not only borrowed the title of the exhibition from Jarmusch, but also paid homage to “Night on Earth” with the film “Euphoria”.

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La Notte (1961, Director: Michelangelo Antonioni)  Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau play the leading roles in this masterpiece of Italian neorealism. Visually haunting and stylistically radical, Antonioni tells the story of a couple's estrangement and the silencing of communication. The film had a great influence on the auteur films of subsequent generations - Julian Rosefeldt also refers to this classic, particularly in his film “Manifesto” with Cate Blanchett.

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L'Âge d'Or (1930, director: Luis Buñuel, restored version by the Cinémathèque Francaise) A pair of lovers are prevented from pursuing their passions by social constraints. Salvador Dalí co-wrote the screenplay for Buñuel's surrealist film, which was scandalous at the time. With a delight in the absurd, Buñuel creates a grotesque-satirical portrait of bourgeois constraints and religious moral concepts. Rosefeldt's works are interspersed with quotations from Buñuel's surreal visual world.

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Cooperation with C/O Berlin as part of the exhibition Julian Rosefeldt - Nothing is Original.