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Vorbereitungen

Preparations (2019)

Narrative Film
(84 min, Germany)

Five survivalists prepare to live stream their exit from society. When they involve a former cyber terrorist their plans get shaken up.

Preparations is a browser film. A cursor leads the viewer through the internet presence of a group of tutorial makers from Berlin – their websites, their home videos and social media profiles. For their survival video channel they document themselves for an experiment – how to leave the surveilled space of society. A make-believe game as preparation for resistance. Their plan to occupy a gated former GDR military area is of no interest to the cyber activist Helvi, who was part of a leftist terror cell and recently released from jail. A generational conflict seems to put into question what the political means are with which they try to become invisible.

Many of Germany's contemporary surveillance policies are formulated in the context of East Germany’s post-revolution, haunted by fascist terrorism and Prepper networks, conspiring for a right-wing take over. Preparations is a film about a generational gap and the desire of millennials for the political urgency of the 1990s, it’s a film about East German imaginaries, DIY culture, YouTube genres and anti-surveillance.

Festival Kit

CAST AND CREW

Performers: Mohammed Sahardid, Cornelia Herfurnter, Elda Sorra, Petja Ivanova, Nicolas Mayer, Clarisse Destailleur
Kamera: Cary Cronenwett
Sound: Shen Sum-Sum
Production Design: Elisabeth Kozerski, Lysander Rohringer
Costumes: Leonie Börger
Music: Anna Luisa Petrikso
Post Production: Esteban Rivera, Ana Gzirishvili
Director, Editor: Kristof Trakal
Production Assistance: Phillip Fröhlich

Das Melodrama und die verzögerte Pre-Production der Ost-Millenials