Another Connection
- Director
- Rokas Wille
- Country
- Germany
- Running time
- 6 Min.
- Language
- German
Director and team in attendance
On a winter night, two travelers find themselves stranded at a train station when their connecting train is delayed. They decide to make the most of the frustrating situation by grabbing a quick bite to eat. Just outside the station, across a small park, they reach a McDonald's restaurant. A dull, ordinary place — everything seems just as it always is. But then they are confronted with something entirely unexpected.
Rokas Wille
Media artist and filmmaker Rokas Wille was born in Frankfurt am Main in 2002 and is currently based in Karlsruhe. His portrait film Klaus und Achim won second prize at the Tiefenschärfe Film Festival in Mannheim in 2017 and was screened again at the Queer Film Festival Weimar in 2025. His film Herzogenriedbad was presented at the DokKa Documentary Film Festival in Karlsruhe in May 2026.
Wille's abstract sculptures and works on paper depicting ground structures from Lützerath have been exhibited at various institutions and events, including the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Prague City Gallery, the 16th Triennial of Small-Scale Sculpture in Fellbach, and an anniversary exhibition celebrating the architecture magazine Moderne Regional in Berlin.
Director's statementWith this film, I wanted to challenge the way we take human-made conditions for granted. Our relationships to production and to other people are constantly presented as natural, even though they are just as artificial as they are changeable. So far, these conditions have simply been changed without conscious awareness.
It is possible to imagine an everyday life that feels just as natural and self-evident as our own, yet is shaped by entirely different ways of relating to one another.
