Water
It floats softly, forms waves, curls around barriers, sprinkles, rushes, roars and storms. We are on, in and under the water, the camera approaches the ephemeral element, tries to capture the flux and the fascination of the liquid. It glitters, glides, escapes and is impossible to hold on to. As a resource, water is politics, infrastructure and controversially discussed space. As an element, it offers entertainment, relaxation, hypnosis and ecstasy. Seven films immerse themselves in the fascinating world of water.
Waterscope Transitions
A dialogue between water and man takes place in which man surrenders to water and at the same time feels the need to objectify it. Water encounters architecture and technology, which, in turn, work for it, with it and against it.
- Deutschland
- 22:00 Min.
- Director: Carsten Aschmann
- Languages: deutsch
- Year: 2012
Glitter and Storm
Water, sunlight, breathing and skin – this is a submersion into the joy of sea swimming by night and by day. A series of moving portraits and interviews held exclusively in the sea off the coast of Hastings in the southeast of England.
- Großbritannien
- 15:00 Min.
- Director: Rebecca Marshall
- Languages: englisch
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
Silences
The silence of the boat, the silence of the river, the silence of the cities crossed, the silence of the deserted factories, the silence after the crash of the bombs, the silence of death, the silence before the disaster. The silence when approaching the border, the silent passing of the warriors and the migrants. The infinite between two shores.
The Sea [is still] Around Us
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"Rachel Carson is dead, but the sea is still around us. This small lake is a sad reminder of what is taking place, in some degree, all over the land, from carelessness, shortsightedness, and arrogance. It is our pool of shame in this 'our particular instant of time.' (E.B. White, 1964)." (Hope Tucker)
- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
- 04:00 Min.
- Director: Hope Tucker
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012
Castaway
CASTAWAY was filmed in the murky waters of Witte's Marine Salvage at Staten Island (New York). The largest boat cemetery on the Eastern Seaboard, this uncanny, desolate place is the final resting place of numerous wrecks of all varieties. Located near New Jersey’s Chemical Coast and the former Fresh Kills landfill, these now toxic shores, originally home to salt marshes, forests and freshwater wetlands, have seen their share of ecological disasters.
The Tide Goes in, the Tide Goes out
A manually processed, black and white ode to the mysterious world of the aurelia aurita.
- Kanada
- 05:30 Min.
- Director: Larissa Fan
- Subtitles: englische
- Year: 2012