Céline Berger, brilliant editor and former production engineer in microelectronics, reworks material from the 1980s German Federal Employment Agency: cutting, drawing, turning, sliding, folding, shoveling, tightening, loosening. These 16mm films, once made to inform and inspire jobseekers all over West Germany, spill and seep into each other to form a mechanical symphony that dismantles the very notion of productive labour.
– Loes van Keulen
Also in this combined programme
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No-da-ji Land
Hybrid documentary exploring the haunting influence of history in an abandoned mining village. -
Evacuations
Black-and-white xeroxes explode with colour and movement that fades away without a trace. -
De wolkenfabriek
Poignant documentary about the closure and dismantling of the coal-fired power station in the Amsterdam harbour.
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2025
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2026
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
