„I saw the teeming sea; I saw daybreak and nightfall; I saw the multitudes of America; I saw a silvery cobweb in the center of a black pyramid […] I saw convex equatorial deserts and each one of their grains of sand […] I saw the rotted dust and bones that had once deliciously been Beatriz Viterbo; I saw the circulation of my own dark blood; I saw the coupling of love and the modification of death; I saw the Aleph from every point and angle, and in the Aleph I saw the earth and in the earth the Aleph.““
The Aleph (1945)
Jorge Luis Borges
THE ALEPH
Long Story Short
a film by Tina-Maria Feyrer and Ralf Schönfelder
DE, AT 2025 / 09 min.
animation, mixed technique
text
cinematography & editing
cast
narrator
puppet maker
propmaker
music & sounddesign
sound recording
project manager
produced by
supported by
Ralf Schönfelder
Tina-Maria Feyrer
Daniela Zacherl, Christian David
Lysann Schläfke
Tina-Maria Feyrer
Philipp Blihall
LESHRAC
Harald Dubellier
Ralf Schönfelder, Romina Nicolić
Thüringer Büro für Literatur & Kunst „Lese-Zeichen“
Thüringer Ministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft & Kultur
Jorge Luis Borges, the blind librarian of world literature, was repeatedly unhappily in love. His most famous short story weaves together the melancholy of a lost love with a mystical experience. In a cellar in Buenos Aires, his alter ego discovers the Aleph: a point in space that contains all places in the world. In the sight of the Aleph he not only experiences the infinite, but is also forced to confront the nature of memory and transience.
(text by Ralf Schönfelder)
After a few pages from C. S. Lewis‘ novel “Out of the Silent Planet,” Borges suddenly burst into tears. His mother asked him why he was crying. He replied, “Because I understand.”