The film Glasaus is a deconstruction of romantic ideals. The repetitions that are made audible go against the void, touch on the attempt at togetherness and end in nothingness again. Longings from one physicality, from one spirituality to another, take on structure, even find their way into dialogue, but then fade away again. But rhythmically articulating shared desires is not enough to avoid alienation. Visually, the glass, the dividing line between individual and individual, ultimately retains the upper hand. From the outset, the human, like an eye, is merely blown glass and the scene expands not physically but into the architectural, the figurative is attempted, but remains in its materiality.
The film was produced in 2025, based on the poem Glasaus by Andreas H. Drescher, who also voiced the male speaker. Elisa Wehrle provides the female voice. The video animation was made and edited using a frame-by-frame image-to-image generation technique by Mert Akbal. Music was produced by Stefan Langfeld. The English translation was made by Sven Kretzschmar.
The film was shown in the German-language poetry section of the Weimar Poetry Film Festival 2025, HIVE International Short Film Festival Berlin 2025, an official selection of the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival Vienna 2026, and was again officially selected for the New York Film and Cinematography Awards 2026.