(Geschichte der Nacht) "This compelling, wordless narrative reveals the alien world of cities at night, urban landscapes empty of people, human space depopulated. The frames and backgrounds of people's lives, architecture stripped of its alleged reasons for being, streets leading in unknown directions converge to recreate the mystery and dislocation of an unfamiliar city seen at night, in a film bearing some resemblance in its magnetism to the cityscapes in the early short films of Wim Wenders. 'The Story of Night is a sixty-minute, black-and-white film made by a small camera crew over 150 nights in many different parts of Europe, when the cities were empty and devoid of life (excpt for those places, like stations, where "night people" hang out). The film is composed of a collection of quiet, meditative pictures and sounds....' (Clemens Klopfenstein)" Edinburgh Film Festival, 1979