The King of Spain
Der König von Spanien
Leonard Volkmer
German Competition Documentary Film 2024
Documentary Film
Germany
2024
23 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
A young man apparently gets lost between his parental home in Lower Saxony, Berlin darkrooms and a flat share in Madrid. The clinical chill of the psychiatry reports is juxtaposed with a heart-wrenching diary text that resists being categorised too quickly. The images, too, speak a different language than the diagnosis: “Disoriented and not responding to his environment,” the initial anamnesis reads. But we see the film sequences trace and re-cast photographic evidence of getting lost, re-connect the narrator persona striving for self-empowerment with his environment. The protocol of a story of illness and treatment expands into an auto-socio-biographical document of self-location by artistic work – on life as lived.
Credits
Director
Leonard Volkmer
Cinematographer
Leonard Volkmer
Producer
Leonard Volkmer
Winner of:
Golden Dove Short Film (German Competition)