Der König von Spanien

Filmstill The King of Spain

The King of Spain

Der König von Spanien
Leonard Volkmer
German Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Germany
2024
23 minutes
German
Subtitles: 
English
World premiere

A young man apparently gets lost between his parental home in Lower Saxony, Berlin darkrooms and a flat share in Madrid. The clinical chill of the psychiatry reports is juxtaposed with a heart-wrenching diary text that resists being categorised too quickly. The images, too, speak a different language than the diagnosis: “Disoriented and not responding to his environment,” the initial anamnesis reads. But we see the film sequences trace and re-cast photographic evidence of getting lost, re-connect the narrator persona striving for self-empowerment with his environment. The protocol of a story of illness and treatment expands into an auto-socio-biographical document of self-location by artistic work – on life as lived.


Jan Künemund

Contains mentions of mental health conditions, drug-use

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Director
Leonard Volkmer
Cinematographer
Leonard Volkmer
Producer
Leonard Volkmer

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Main Contact
Leonard Volkmer
leonardjvolkmer@gmx.de
Winner of: Golden Dove Short Film (German Competition)