Plus-minus Null

Feature shot in less than twelve days on digital video. Moore filmed his drama hand-held, like a documentary, and worked without a written script. He aimed for the social-realism of a Mike Leigh, but his approach makes the result even tougher and more realistic than his paradigm. He prepared the film in a kind of workshop with his three main actors by improvising several scenes. He wanted to limit himself to the roots of film-making and leave out anything that would distract from that, to provide room for spontaneity.Plus-minus Null follows a short period in the life of the far from successful Alex. He is broke and kicked out of the house by his wife. He makes some half-hearted attempts to get back on top by working part-time on a building site (on the Potsdamer Platz) and by stealing now and then. But stealing is not his strongest point. He is caught at work and loses his job and his shelter in a container on the building site. Alex' life seems to improve when he has a relationship with the Bosnian prostitute Svetlana, but when she wants to marry him, things get too complicated for Alex. Then he starts an affair with Ruth, another prostitute.The nonchalant and appealing Andreas Schmidt as Alex ensures that the film has a light-hearted and humorous tone alongside the realism.