What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen but instead, you're stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many years, they still hear the same questions over and over again: Where are you from? Do you speak Dutch? Do you tan in the sun?
In Blind Date 2.0, Paul once again receives the filmmaker at his home – this time in order to shoot a sex date. Far from the spectacularly pornographic, but also from amateur porn, there is room to first of all clarify preferences, and consensus is established. Since both men are rather on the passive side and the double dildo fails to win over the visitor, they agree on a blowjob and find a practicable middle ground in mutual masturbation. Blind Date 2.0 does not aim at producing arousal but constitutes a doubly empathetic approach – that of the filmmaker to his protagonist, and that of the protagonist to his rather monosyllabic visitor. In targeted, unspectacular framing, the film captures the sex-positive in the ordinary, in the non-standardised, and above all in the context of social interaction: comprehensible, moving, and with a memorable cigarette afterwards.
The cutting down of a cherry tree becomes the starting point of an intimate dialogue about transgenerational trauma between a mother and a daughter. The line between the need for investigation and the desire for healing becomes blurry when a persistent camera depicts the felling of the tree. The short documentary is an attempt to find a shared language for the unspeakable consequences of child sexual abuse within my own family. Content warning: The film contains descriptions of experiences of sexual violence.
sounds for a wounded landscape – Activities on the Ground
sounds for a wounded landscape – Activities on the Ground
Frauke Berg, Oliver Gather
New German Short Films
Documentary Film
Germany
2023
11 minutes
English
International Premiere open
Trailer
Synopsis
In view of the question of a new way of dealing with our resources, there is also the question of a new way of dealing with landscape. How can humans enter into a relationship with the landscape, beyond a subject-object relationship that degrades everything “non-human” to an available mass of exploitation?
As a self-experiment, the sound artists Frauke Berg and Anja Lautermann play and listen into the large hole of the Garzweiler open-cast mine. The camera observes the conflict at the hole, looks and listens into it. Like a collage, the film links all with all and finds a form for the fact that everything takes place with consequences in and on the same ground.
All attempts to alleviate or stop the wounding of the landscape seem fragile, helpless, and perhaps even futile.
DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.