Earth (2019)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | earth |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German , English , Hungarian , Italian , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
| production |
Michael Kitzberger , Markus Glaser , Wolfgang Widerhofer , Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
| camera | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
| cut | Niki Mossböck |
Earth is an Austrian documentary film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter from 2019. It describes in seven locations how humans use the earth and commit overexploitation of it.
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The film approaches the various locations within a strict framework: First a detailed, static bird's eye view, then the change to the ground and the approach to the machines that are digging into the earth or the rock. Finally, the camera follows a person who is shortly afterwards interviewed calmly and looks at the viewer head-on.
People talk about their work, mostly justify it, but also express critical thoughts. Questions are asked cautiously by a person behind the camera, pictures of the machines in use are shown again and again.
The Canadian setting deviates from the form described: Here two locals explore a former fracking test area and examine various remains and the damage to nature.
There is no music and no comments, instead a lot of original machine sounds.
The locations are:
- a construction site with the leveling of mountains in the San Fernando Valley , California , USA
- a copper mine in Minas de Riotinto , Spain , with an adjacent archaeological dig
- a marble - quarry in Carrara , Italy
- the Brenner Base Tunnel in Austria
- an open- cast lignite mine in Visonta , Hungary
- the Asse , a salt mine in Germany , in which nuclear waste is stored
- a fracking test area in Canada
Criticism and reception
Lars Dolkemeyer said on kinozeit.de: “The film itself stretches between sheer aesthetic overwhelming and the horror of what is expressed in this overwhelming - between the abstract choreography of the machines and the megalomania of the idea of actually something like a fight against the Leading and winning planets. "
The NDR says: "The film is an impressive plea against the overexploitation of nature by humans."
Hannah Pilarczyk writes on SpiegelOnline: "It is the big question of the age of man ...: Where does the creation of the earth by man end and where does the destruction begin?"
Awards and nominations (selection)
Berlin International Film Festival 2019
- Award with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in the Forum section
Diagonal 2019
- Award in the category Best Sound Design Documentary ( Florian Kindlinger )
Cut Prize 2019
- Nomination for the Fine Art Editing Award Documentary Film ( Niki Mossböck )
- Award in the category Best Documentary (Ralph Wieser, David Bohun, Sebastian Brameshuber)
- Nomination in the category Best Sound Design (original sound: Pavel Cuzuioc, Simon Graf, Lenka Mikulová, Hjalti Bager-Jonathansson, Nora Czamler, Andreas Hamza, Eva Hausberger, sound design: Florian Kindlinger, mix: Alexander Koller)
Web links
- Earth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Earth on the website of the Austrian Film Institute
- Press booklet
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for earth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 190464 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for earth . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ kino-zeit.de
- ↑ ndr.de
- ↑ spiegel.de
- ↑ The nominees for the 2019 cut prices have been announced. August 20, 2019, accessed August 27, 2019 .
- ^ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2020. In: Academy of Austrian Films . Retrieved December 4, 2019 .