People wonder about the disappearance of the moon. Meanwhile, a bull escapes from his herd and takes a poetic trip through the night – with a surprising finale.
A bull flees from his herd. The moon goes missing from the sky. The bull runs across this new moonless world, looking for its limit. Instead, he finds different people and their many endeavours, and in them, discovers their limitlessness. He learns of his own penchant for poetry and finds a way to transform his quest.
I recently saw someone that looked like you. I realised quickly that he was not you – but he moved like you. Ran his hands through his hair like you. And had the same backpack in the same shabby state. So I decided to follow your not-you for a while.
A property of chaos is the emergence of pattern. Independent of scale. Paradeigma is the sample of the pattern. We witness a grounded figure which, due to the fear of free fall and discomfort from the rain, closed itself in an enchanted square and can no longer leave. Protagonist manifestation is a repeating sample of a self-similar pattern.
There is Portugal, there is the Portuguese language and there is a Ukrainian filmmaker who learns the language and approaches the role of the potential migrant. There is also a play of words: zangar and o zangāo. How is it possible to express such an empowering emotion like anger in the fragile attempts of a beginner? The video essay is woven from the filmmaker's narration, language classes, personal videos and archival images from Kyiv – revealing the split reality of anyone who is finding a safe place abroad while longing for home, which is under the constant danger of war.
Medieval time travellers on a short visit to the future, so-called present and not-so-grey prehistory encounter burgers, SUVs, esoterics and a mammoth before (spoiler alert) returning to the past.
Evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers takes us along on her epic quest to map the world's fungi networks and understand their behaviour before it's too late.
Beneath our feet lies a mystery. A complex underground network of mycorrhizal fungi keeps our ecosystem alive by exchanging nutrients and carbon with almost all plants on Earth. Remarkably, no one knows exactly how these sophisticated and ancient systems operate, or how they are affected by climate change.
The Underground Astronaut follows evolutionary biologist Toby Kiers, named one of the 2022 TIME100 Next Innovators, on her quest to map the world's fungi networks and understand their behaviour before it's too late. A fragrant and high-stakes journey into the soil. “No fungi, no future.”
The Underground Astronaut is part of Ammodo Docs, a series of short documentaries about original minds in arts and science.
Women look after a grave on an island cemetery. Observing this process triggers an experimental, visually inventive reflection on female bonding and vanished men.
This hybrid film takes us on a journey into a world without men, where women choose the image that will represent them after they are gone. The author silently questions: how does it feel to have a family tree consisting only of women? And what do our ancestors whisper from their silent portraits?
The big bang, tardigrades, humanity as a dying breed: A child researcher on a farm by the Baltic Sea has some astonishing thoughts about these things – and his curiosity about the present is infectious.
Rovin lives on a farm on the countryside at the Baltic Sea. In his very own rhythm he is occupied exploring his environment. Moss, fire and his great curiosity: discovering new planets, stars, unknown beings – the universe. Maria is taking care of the stones at the beach very close to her house, while Christopher is busy moving stones up on a little hill. All of them in search for something.
DOK Industry is realised with the support of Creative Europe MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM) and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media upon a Decision of the German Bundestag.