Schlafsand
Switzerland, January 2024
FILM,
Documentary, Experimental,
14 min.
- directed by
- Elias Bötticher
- Written by
- Elias Bötticher
- Status
- In distribution
The earth shakes. The air shimmers. The singsong of heavy metal lulls us beguilingly into perpetual slumber. Well sheltered, under white shrouds, a rushing river swells. Does the cold rolling tide wash away the sticky sweet sand of sleep? The smoke in the distance transfigures the eyesight. A reflection on our being, acting and refusing to realize it. A journey in pictures from the mountain peaks to a dying Swiss glacier, into the city, deep into the Hambach open-cast mine, where the engines of the coal excavators rattle incessantly.
credits
- World Premiere
- January 2024
- Original Version
- Without dialogue, colour, DCP, 14 min.
- Production
- Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK - Departement Darstellende Künste und Film
- Producer
- Filippo Bonacci
- directed by
- Elias Bötticher
- Written by
- Elias Bötticher
- Cinematography
- Elias Bötticher
- Editing
- Elias Bötticher
- Sound Design
- Elias Bötticher
World Sales / World Rights
Festivals
(a selection)
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Solothurn, 60. Solothurner Filmtage
22.01.2025 - 29.01.2025 -
Berlin, 40. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Berlin
05.11.2024 - 10.11.2024 -
Tirana, 22nd Tirana International Film Festival
22.09.2024 - 28.09.2024 -
Prizren, 23rd Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival Prizren
02.08.2024 - 10.08.2024 -
Den Haag, Movies That Matter Festival 2024
22.03.2024 - 30.03.2024 -
Clermont-Ferrand, 46th Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival
02.02.2024 - 10.02.2024 -
Rotterdam, 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam
25.01.2024 - 04.02.2024