Competitionfilms a-z

Zement

D: Dirk Peuker, Bettina Nürnberg
AUT/GER 2014, OwE, 12‘

A boat crosses a lake to the accompaniment of music by Gustav Mahler; the scene suggests a sentimental movie about an idyllic mountain region. But appearances can be deceiving. Ebensee in the Austrian Salzkammergut area was the site of a Nazi concentration camp. A forest track turns out to be the so-called “lion’s path”, along which forced labourers were driven like animals up to work in the quarry. Soon after the war a housing estate was built here. People are surprised and disappointed at the lack of historical awareness.

Bettina Nürnberg was born in 1976 in Mannheim and in 2006 graduated from the Hamburg Hochschule für Bildende Künste, where she studied film. She lives and works as a video artist in Berlin.
Dirk Peuker, born 1970 in Friedrichroda, graduated in 2005 having studied experimental film at the Universität der Künste Berlin and visual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Since 2009 he’s been working for the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee.

 

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