Dead Sea Dying

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Dead Sea Dying

Dead Sea Dying
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Time to Act! 2022
Documentary Film
Germany
2019
30 minutes
English,
Hebrew
Subtitles: 
English

A cinematic journey to the lowest point on earth, in the course of which the universal story of creation, responsibility and doom unfolds. The film was shot at the shores of the Dead Sea, where God once destroyed Sodom and Gomorra to punish the sins of humanity. The waters of the lake have been receding for decades. What’s left are salty crusts, deserted spas and dangerous sinkholes. The ambiguous but never obtrusive montage interweaves the biblical tale of Lot’s wife, who turned into a pillar of salt, with the disconcerting question of why we, as allegedly rational beings, react to the current crises by going into a state of shock instead of taking action.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Script
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Cinematographer
Manuel Lübbers
Editor
Melanie Jilg
Producer
Rebecca Zehr, Katharina Rabl
Narrator
Mona Vojacek Koper