In the 1970s, an extraordinary cinematic impulse formed at the intersection of countercultural mysticism, poststructuralist doubt, and emerging media technologies: to film what eludes the eye, to make the world visible through a sensory ritual that becomes a channel for communication in discovering the unseen.

In the history of art, bodies have often had connotations going beyond their physical presence – they were symbols of power, ideals, discipline, and also tools of ideological address. Bereitschaft is a contemporary intervention in this long tradition, intertwining the history of totalitarian aesthetics and the present-day visual culture of social media.