Behind the Moment
was born from a simple but urgent question:
How can painting and film — space and time — converge to open a deeper way of seeing?
At the center of this journey stands the work of Jan Siebert, a German painter whose decades-long immersion in the Global South has yielded a humanistic realism that refuses spectacle. His paintings do not explain; they invite. They open a silent space behind the visible — a space where dignity, struggle, and beauty quietly endure.
Behind the Moment transcends traditional documentary form — a movement through paintings into time, a film that lingers, listens, and extends the life hidden within the image.
Inspired by Hans Blumenberg’s idea of working on the unsayable, the film approaches the paintings not through explanation, but through rhythm, light, and silent presence— echoing his trust in metaphor and form where literal language reaches its limits.
In an era of acceleration, simulation, and curated realities, slowness itself becomes a radical gesture.
The film resists the swipe, the scroll, the spectacle. It asks the viewer to go beyond consuming the image — to enter it, to encounter rather than capture.
Like Jan’s work, Behind the Moment stands against the erosion of authentic experience. It seeks to reclaim the space where imagination and reality meet — where the seen and the unseen breathe together. This is not a story to be told. It is a space to be entered.
By Roman Stehling Artistic & Philosophical Director