Unter Wasser

Synopsis

I lie on my back, under the surface of the water. The sea is purple. I feel the warmth with every pore of my body. I’m not afraid anymore.

“I see everything,” she says, as if it was a curse. Brilliant sunshine, clear blue skies. The sea is calm, framed by a piece of railing. Buzzing voices. A peaceful moment if it weren’t for the fact that the sea is standing upright, vertical, like a waterfall. A rush of images, twirling, upside down, jolting. People in the boat, in the water, screams, life jackets, emergency whistles. Fluorescent orange, geometrical shapes cast by the sun. There’s no horizon any more, no sky, no up or down, only deepness and nothing to hold on to. Even time’s flow comes to a halt, contracting into the brutal present. She is filming and speaking. To him, to herself, to us, perhaps. Floating legs in sweat pants, jeans, thronged together. A blouse with butterflies, it looks like their wings are flapping in the water. The snake-like belt of a coat, a crumpled-up plastic cup, a pack of cigarettes. Fuck you all! She speaks, she rages, and she films to beat being tired, being cold, the fact that help isn’t coming. To beat dying, just for something to remain.

Credits

Author/Director/Narrator Amel Alzakout
Co-Author/Co-Director Khaled Abdulwahed
Editor Philip Scheffner
Dramaturgy Alex Gerbaulet, Merle Kröger,
Philip Scheffner
Sound Design Simon Bastian
Golour Grading Matthias Behrens
Producers Alex Gerbaulet, Ines Meier
Commissioning Editor ZDF/ARTE Doris Hepp

Produced by pong
Co-produced by ZDF
in cooperation with ARTE

Funded by
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa

Contact Production pong
Alex Gerbaulet
E-mail: gerbaulet(at)pong-berlin.de
Tel: +49 (0)30 61076098

Contact World Sales Lightdox
Anna Berthollet
E-mail: anna(at)lightdox.com
Tel: +41 (0) 78 637 04 44 | +33 (0) 6 20 65 33 03
www.lightdox.com

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