Symbolic Threats

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2015 runtime 15'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Digital languages Englisch
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch

Poetry or threat? An act of surrender or art? These were the theories that puzzled New York during last summer. Inspired by the heated debate over two "White American Flags“ that suddenly appeared on the towers of New York City’s Brooklyn Bridge, the film asks what kind of societal scope art has in the present day.

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director Lutz Henke, Matthias Wermke, Mischa Leinkauf Produktion / Production Lutz Henke, Matthias Wermke, Mischa Leinkauf Tongestaltung / Sound Design Alexander Heinze
Festivals
Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (Nomination European Film Academy Award)
2015 Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
2015 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany (Best German Short)
2015 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany (Audience Award)
2015 DocumentaMadrid, Spain (Audience Award)
2015 Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2015 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland
2015 Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany (Special Mention)
2015 Leeds International Film Festival, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2016 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Production
  • Wermke/Leinkauf GbR
  • http://www.wermke-leinkauf.com
Sales
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Matthias Wermke

Filmography
2005 Die Neonorangene Kuh
2006 Trotzdem Danke
2008 Zwischenzeit

Mischa Leinkauf

Mischa Leinkauf, Lutz Henke and Matthias Wermke create images and mindscapes, tell stories and dissect events – always in the hope of making the unseen visible and of exploring a place’s fixed meaning and potential use.

Filmography
2005 Die Neonorangene Kuh
2006 Trotzdem Danke
2008 Zwischenzeit
2010 Power!