{"id":2982,"date":"2026-09-06T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/?page_id=2982"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:30:11","slug":"begotten","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/en\/programm-2026\/begotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Begotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2982\" class=\"elementor elementor-2982\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-689adfc e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"689adfc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2f13446 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"2f13446\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-1024x576.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2582\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-18x10.webp 18w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4-1320x743.webp 1320w, https:\/\/filmfestaachen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Begotten_1920x1080-4.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e4cede9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e4cede9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">USA, 1989, 72 min., E. Elias Merhige, No Spoken Language, Germany Premiere<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The credits of the film name three principal figures<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God Killing Himself.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mother Earth.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Son of Earth \u2014 Flesh on Bone<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God kills himself, and from his remains Mother Earth rises. She gives birth to Son of Earth \u2014 Flesh on Bone. We arrive at perhaps the most primordial form of the cycle. God dies. The Earth is born. Life emerges from death, and life moves again towards destruction. Creation and annihilation are not opposites but part of the same process. Death becomes the beginning of another life; life carries within itself the certainty of another death. The film strips existence down to this elemental cycle, where the boundaries between birth, death and rebirth almost disappear.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">__________________________________________<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Im Abspann des Films werden drei zentrale Figuren genannt<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gott, der sich selbst t\u00f6tet.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mutter Erde.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sohn der Erde \u2013 Fleisch auf Knochen<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gott t\u00f6tet sich selbst, und aus seinen \u00dcberresten erhebt sich Mutter Erde. Sie gebiert den Sohn der Erde \u2013 Fleisch auf Knochen. Wir gelangen zu einer vielleicht urspr\u00fcnglichsten Form des Kreislaufs. Gott stirbt. Die Erde wird geboren. Leben entsteht aus dem Tod, und das Leben bewegt sich erneut auf die Zerst\u00f6rung zu. Sch\u00f6pfung und Vernichtung sind keine Gegens\u00e4tze, sondern Teil desselben Prozesses. Der Tod wird zum Beginn eines weiteren Lebens; das Leben tr\u00e4gt die Gewissheit eines weiteren Todes in sich. 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