Die Stimme des Ingenieurs

Filmstill The Engineer’s Voice

The Engineer’s Voice

Die Stimme des Ingenieurs
André Siegers
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2024
21 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

A man’s voice from offscreen. He lists individual words, has problems of articulation. At first these are abstract terms, the screen stays black. Sky, street, village and house, however, are accompanied by suitable images. They take us into the speaker’s life. It is his house. These are his automatic shutters. We look into the kitchen where his wife is preparing something. He exercises in a specially equipped room. Later he sits in front of the microphone again, obviously recording his voice to preserve it. Another dimension opens between the recorded words and sentences and beyond the images. There is an inevitability in the room – and a great love. The robot vacuum makes its rounds. Who will put the words stored on the computer into a meaningful context later?


Anke Leweke

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Director
André Siegers
Cinematographer
Karsten Krause
Producer
Karsten Krause, Julia Cöllen, Frank Scheuffele
Sound Design
Kris Jakobs

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Main Contact
Karsten Krause
karsten@fuenferfilm.de
Nominated for: Gedanken Aufschluss Prize