Bedsores

Filmstill Bedsores

Bedsores

Bedsores
Fritz Polzer
German Competition Documentary Film 2024
Documentary Film
Germany
2023
11 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English

The world stands still. Gaudily painted cruise ships lie in the oil port of Augusta on the south-east coast of Sicily. Their lustre fades a little more every day. On the scorched, tinged 16mm film stock they seem as unfit for the future as the refineries visible behind them. When, if not in the early summer of 2021, would the time have ever been riper for reflection and reassessment?! Old, exploitative economic systems that keep people away from Europe and let only raw materials enter are in lockdown. Their future is unimaginable. But is there a way back? To the gentle sound of the waves, the birds and the insects, the smoke of the industrial plants wafts back into the chimneys. But the images have been damaged.

Jan Künemund

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Fritz Polzer
Cinematographer
Fritz Polzer
Producer
Glen Sheppard