Work in Progress
Pipeline
Why
not tell what happened (WT)
Documentary
film, HD, approx. 100 min., bw+color
Director:
Marcin Wierzchowski
A
co-production of milk and water, Frankfurt and strandfilm, Frankfurt
In
cooperation with ZDF-3sat and HR
Funded
by Hessen Film & Medien GmbH
Status
February 2022: In production
It
happened on February 19, 2020. A man in a green outdoor jacket walks
across this intersection as if in a hurry, his gray cap pulled low
over his face. He then picks up a gun in both hands like he's done it
before. That's what you know from the movies. He fires multiple shots
in a fraction of a second, as he learned in one of his countless
shooting training sessions. He shoots a young man standing on the
sidewalk. The man collapses.
He
enters a bar with quick steps, goes to the counter, again several
shots. The barman throws another bottle at the shooter and is then
hit several times in the upper body and head. The perpetrator leaves
the store and moves on. In the next bar he opens the door with his
left hand so that it is ajar and shoots at the man sitting at the
table right by the door.
He
met three people, not a minute passed. He fires at a car that is
trying to escape the shots backwards and with squeaking tires
City of Prophets (WT)
Documentary, HD, 90 min.
Director: Marcin Wierzchowski
A co-production of milk and water, Frankfurt and strandfilm, Frankfurt
Funded by Hessen Film & Medien GmbH
Status February 2022: In production
The film »City of Prophets« (WT) sheds light on the time after the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. They are the starting point of our story. The economic and social upheavals in Brazil hit Rio particularly hard due to the expenses for the mega event. In the film, symbolic images are combined with analyzes of social development and offer insights into the connections between the events surrounding the 2016 games and Bolsonaro's populist politics in Brazil today.