Den eviga staden is Vilhelm Jegerhjelm's debut film. A city portrait that follows the city from dusk to dawn. The people are the city's blood cells. Parts of a seemingly eternal cycle.

Every year, on Easter, the church inevitably encounters an endless stream of believers, many of whom come here only once a year - on this day. What do they expect from this holiday? What are they hoping for? What are they searching for?

The film focuses on the development of absolutism in the Duchy of Wolfenbüttel under Duke Anton Ulrich, as preserved in pictorial documents and architectural monuments. In addition to the ideas of French absolutism, the court and government as well as the financing of the expenditure through taxes and duties, which placed an extraordinary burden on the people, are shown in detail.

A portal, a sorceress, a fictional device to portray existence as a moment encapsulated inside an instantaneous photograph to present fragmented biographical elements —family disintegration, rootlessness, scars, two loyal companions, the promises of a new land—subverting the notion of a home-movie and transform it into a pilgrimage tool of self-discovery, mirroring the fragile nature of memories.

Twenty-four images of a camera running in the woods, a moonlight and a cemetery through improvised gestures, mechanical abstraction and saturated colors