Sonne Unter Tage
Sun Under Ground

film type documentary film, experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2022 runtime 39'00 colour Color,
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Dolby Surround original-language German subtitles English
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo original-language German subtitles English

A gravel path on the edge of a village. Between fields and over to a fence. Drawn into the map of former uranium mining areas in Saxony and Thuringia. Night. Darkness. The ground exposes the film, leaving a trail of its invisible rays. The film follows this trace through space and time, and looks at the material, metaphorical and geopolitical rearrangements of the element uranium.

director Mareike Bernien, Alex Gerbaulet Production Caroline Kirberg Script Alex Gerbaulet, Mareike Bernien Editing Alex Gerbaulet, Mareike Bernien Sound Design Alex Gerbaulet, Mareike Bernien, Tom Schön DOP Jenny Lou Ziegel Cast Susanne Sachsse, Katharina Meves, Tucké Royale
Festivals
2022 EMAF - European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany
2022 dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
2022 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
2022 Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
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Mareike Bernien

Mareike Bernien is a Berlin-based filmmaker and teacher. Since 2018 she has been part of the pong film production platform. With a media-archaeological approach, her artistic works question ideological certainties of representation, as well as their material-technological preconditions and historical continuities.

Filmography
2011 RED, SHE SAID
2014 RAINBOW'S GRAVITY
2017 TIEFENSCHÄRFE

Alex Gerbaulet

Alex Gerbaulet is an artist, filmmaker and curator based in Berlin. Since 2014 she is part of the pong film production platform team. In her artistic work she explores, amongst others, the imageability of reality and memory. Her films move between video art, essay and documentary film.

Filmography
2015 Schicht
2016 Tiefenschärfe
2018 Die Schläferin