"Kino-archaeology from a distant time" is how emeritus professor Gerhard Drekonja describes the insightful excerpts from film essays, critiques, and festival reports by Horst Dieter Sihler, which have been published in ORF as well as in numerous print media, from Der Standard to FAZ. This volume contains brilliant analyses in a "style so precise that it is hard to surpass in its sharpness for cinematic structures." It covers topics such as the "camera as a weapon" in Latin America, the Polish "Cinema of Solidarity," the inventor of the cinematic alphabet, and computer animation. Interspersed are anecdotes, the best from the "film diary of hds," autobiographical elements, and numerous photos. The concluding chapter is dedicated to local film and cinema struggles, the decades of Austrian film and cultural policy, during which theater was everything and film was nothing. Horst Dieter Sihler is well-known.