
Ted Fendt (USA, 1989) is a filmmaker, translator, and projectionist based in Berlin. With a small group of friends and collaborators, he makes short and long films on 16mm, including Short Stay and Classical Period. They have been shown internationally in cinemas and festivals large and small.

Daniela is unsure about what to do next and where to live. Mia is finishing a master's degree that she spontaneously started. Along with Natascha, another friend thinking of moving to Vienna, they wander around and talk.

Classical Period is a portrait of Cal and his friends in Philadelphia. They meet and have long conversations about books, poetry, music, and architecture, most notably Henry Longfellow's 1864 translation of Dante's Divine Comedy ....

The perfect anti-hero, Mike is 30, ambitionless and not particularly skilled for anything. When offered a better job in a bigger city, Philadelphia, he decides to go. Aimless as always, Mike floats, as if in a trance, from one low...