DER GROSSE GAMMEL
THE BIG ROT

film type experimental film, documentary film Production Country Germany production year 2013 runtime 8'00 colour
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format Dolby A languages Russisch Subtitles Englisch

A farewell film to the theatre of Greiz. The buildings destruction in 2011 was transferred into the medium of documentation itself: About 120 film slides depict different phases like dilapidation, squalidness, emptying, demolition. The individual slides were destructed as well - with methods like bleaching, burning and corroding. While the theatre decomposes bit by bit, the images of its demolition vanish as well.

director Susann Maria Hempel Animation Susann Maria Hempel Schnitt / Editing Susann Maria Hempel Bildgestaltung / DOP Susann Maria Hempel Produktion / Production Susann Maria Hempel Drehbuch / Script Susann Maria Hempel Tongestaltung / Sound Design Susann Maria Hempel
Festivals
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris, France
MADATAC, Madrid, Spain
Ozu Film Festival, Sassuolo, Italy
Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig, Germany (Lobende Erwähnung)
Production
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Distribution
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Sales
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Susann Maria Hempel

Born 1983 in Greiz;
from 2001 to 2009 she studied media design at the Bauhaus University Weimar

Filmography
2011 Die Fliegen (The Birds II)
2012 Wie ist die Welt so stille
2013 Der große Gammel
2014 Sieben Mal am Tag beklagen wir unser Los und nachts stehen wir auf, um nicht zu träumen
2022 Die Hüter des Unrats. Eine kurze Geschichte des Abfalls