Blue end

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Movie
Original title Blue end
Country of production Switzerland
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Kaspar Kasics
script Kaspar Kasics
production Kaspar Kasics
music Me tanner
camera Pierre Mennel
cut Kaspar Kasics,
Isabel Meier ,
Miriam Flury

Blue End is a Swiss documentary directed by Kaspar Kasics from 2000 that premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival .

content

For the first time, Blue End tells the complete and "unheard-of story" (Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger) of the Texan murderer Joseph P. Jernigan. As the fifth and youngest child of a single and constantly absent mother, he lost his footing at an early age and became addicted to alcohol and theft. Even his early marriage did nothing to change his notorious forays, for which he was twice sentenced to low sentences. When he spontaneously broke in again, he was surprised by the homeowner leaving. In a panic of being sentenced to life imprisonment due to the Texan 'three strike rule', he returned to the house and killed the man in a helpless and brutal manner, which he finally managed with the shot from the home owner's rifle standing around. Jernigan's wife reported him to the police. Since prosecutor Patrick Batchelor offered him an overnight contact visit with his wife, Jernigan signed a confession. Jernigan was sentenced to death in a dubious one and a half day trial, without the involvement of relevant witnesses or experts, and executed 12 years later in Huntsville in the presence of the Death House Chaplans and his brother Bobby. Ten minutes later, Dr. Victor Spitzer from the Denver University of Colorado received Jernigan's body on behalf of the National Library of Medicine of the United States: As the 'perfect body' for the ambitious project of the 'visible man'.

In the mid-1990s, Joseph Paul Jernigan anonymously appeared on the Internet as the first fully digitized body: a quantum leap in anatomy, a pioneering achievement in science, developed in accordance with the advances in computer technology. Universities around the world have been researching and working with the published data ever since. The background to Jernigan's act, the questionable legal process, and the way the science got to Jernigan's body were unknown until the film came out. In Blue End , Brother Bobby, ex-wife Vicky, the defense attorney, the prosecutor, the death priest and the scientists reveal the whole 'unheard of' story and relive it.

reception

Blue End was shown in the Official Selection (Panorama) of the Berlin International Film Festival and at renowned film festivals around the world, including in Melbourne, Krakow, Thessaloniki and Locarno. He was awarded the ecumenical prize at the Berlinale. Nominated for the Swiss Film Prize, it received a high quality award from the Federal Office of Culture.

An immensely compelling documentary about normal inhumanity. The appropriately complex interweaving of arguments and feelings in the case of the human and digitized Jernigan is Kaspar Kasics' truly impressive achievement as a documentary filmmaker.
Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger.

A complex mosaic of perspectives and relationships that, especially in its laconic laconic form, creates a tremendous impression. A great film about the last things. A masterpiece.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

A harrowing film document and a moving plea for humanity that is trampled underfoot by an atavistic judiciary and fanatical science.
Basler newspaper

A breathtaking morality on research and its limits.
Swiss Sunday newspaper

Reviews

  • Valentin Herzog: In the service of science: Kaspar Kasics' “Blue End”. In: Basler Zeitung. No. 109, 2001, ( ; 318 KB ).
  • Mark Siemons: The digitized killer. Kaspar Kasics' great film about the last things. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 13, 2000, ( ; 311 KB ).
  • Urs Steiner: Giving the “Visible Man” a face: Kaspar Kasics on “Blue End”. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. No. 107, 2001, ( ; 363 KB ).
  • Christoph Schneider: Entry into the digital immortality ". In: Tagesanzeiger. , ( 414 KB ).
  • Deborah Young: Blue End. In: Variety. September 3, 2000, ( ; 237 KB ).
  • Thomas Schmid: Resurrection on the Net. In: Weltwoche. No. 20, 2001, ( ; 316 KB ).

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