Remember Tomorrow is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life

This film is composed of shots of an AFN radio DJ at work and of a car ride, whereby the camera points out of the car. Farocki’s only road movie demonstrates how listening to music on the car radio becomes the soundtrack to one’s own life story. The female narrator explains that music on the radio wakens and provokes memories, memories, which are a gift from radio, a program filled with subjective conditions. However, commercial music signifies nothing but itself, so the listener is no longer able to form associations with memory. At the same time, the constantly accelerating rotation of songs leads today’s music consumer to experience the present as a memory. AFN permanently repeats itself, transforms repetition into enjoyment and (for those who would have it) the present into eternity.