['d℧ŋkl'' dɔɪ̯ʧlant]

['d℧ŋkl'' dɔɪ̯ʧlant]

by Stefanie Schroeder and Juliane Jaschnow (13 min) 13 min | 2015

A ghost-train ride through the former industrial region of Halle/Bitterfeld, a place trying to shed its reputation. Just beneath the newly polished surface, the recent past remains deposited. The subjective camera of the filmmakers, born in “Dark Germany,” stumbles in search of the right distance.

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['d℧ŋkl'' dɔɪ̯ʧlant]

A film by Stefanie Schroeder and Juliane Jaschnow

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13 min
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Synopsis

A ghost-train ride through the former East German industrial region of Halle/Bitterfeld, a place intent on shedding its reputation: factories and chimneys vanish, wellness centres spread, sheep graze beneath solar panels. Just beneath the new surface lies the recent past. The film begins by taking literally the negatively charged term and cliché of “Dark Germany”. It sketches a portrait of a place disappearing—and, at the same time, a record of its invention.

Born in “Dark Germany” themselves, the filmmakers' subjective camera gropes for the right distance: at the Solarpark Teutschenthal, built on a former Soviet military base; on the dance floor of the Bitterfeld pub The Door Anno 1992; in the murky waters of the Frieden allotment gardens in Saalekreis, submerged in the early 1990s after industry collapsed; and in the wellness mist of the Mexican-themed sauna complex Maya Mare in Halle. The journey begins in the darkroom wing of the former ORWO Film Factory Wolfen, where photographic film was once manufactured in absolute darkness.

Film review ['d℧ŋkl'' dɔɪ̯ʧlant]

The film transports us from the inside of an old factory of cinematographic films to a sensory journey to places initially unknown, but that gradually enclose a belonging region. The film surprisingly presents the integration of Socialist Germany – ironically called by Western Dark Germany – and the definition of a new scope. In the darkness of the plant and from other hidden sensations of places, we are immersed in constant discoveries of the territory, combined with feelings of opening and closing, evaluation of distances and survey of new measures. The film overlaps past and future in layers of sensations that balance between the disappearance and the invention of a place.
Gustavo Jardim, Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival

Awards & Festivals

Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur

2015 | Internationaler Wettbewerb
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

2015
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Les Recontres Internationales Paris/Berlin

2015
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

International Underground Film Festival Ulaan Batoor

2016 | Best Non-Narrative Film
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Kurzsuechtig Leipzig

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Concordia Film Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Seoul International New Media Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

MIEFF Moscow International Experimental Film Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Norwich Radical Film Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Open Eyes Film Fest Marburg

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Supernormal Festival

2016 | Best Experimental Film Award
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Experimental Superstars Novi Sad

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

November Film Festival London

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

In your dreams i am a landscape

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Expendida Festival, Cinemateca Distrital Bogota

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Plastik Festival

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Vkratze!

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Ferfilm Ferizaj

2017
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

FTC – Festival International Tous de Courts Métrages

2017
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Grand Off – World Independent Film Awards

2018
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Festival Icaro Nacional

2016
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Syros International Film Festival

2018
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Was wir filmten: Regisseurinnen mit ostdeutschen Perspektiven

2021

Credits

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