The American Sector
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The American Sector |
| Original title | The American Sector |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 70 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Courtney Stephens , Pacho Velez |
| production | Pacho Velez |
| camera | Pacho Velez |
| cut | Dounia Sichov, Courtney Stephens |
The American Sector is an American documentary film under the direction of Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez . The film celebrated its world premiere on February 21, 2020 at the Berlinale in the Berlinale Special section .
content
30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall , the film explores the question of the significance of the parts of the Wall that American private individuals or institutions have brought to the USA. It is shown how architectural monuments affect the history of the present. Some of them are left to their own devices, while others are honored. The 3.5 meter high concrete parts are in historically and politically significant places such as the headquarters of the CIA or Fort Benning . There is also a section of the wall at Missouri College in Fulton ; there Winston Churchill gave his speech The Sinews of Peace (German: The Sinews of Peace ), which is “a fanfare for the Cold War”. Other locations put the parts of the wall in a bizarre context - such as the men's room in the casino and hotel Main Street Station on the Las Vegas Strip or the curiosity museum Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Alamo , a former mission station in the Texan city of San Antonio that has been converted into a fort . A part was also placed at Capital University in Bexley , a suburb of Columbus in Ohio .
The film shows 75 of these places and takes the audience with it to interviews with the unusual people who own, maintain and deal with the parts of the wall. In this way, The American Sector opens a window into American culture: The relics of the Cold War become an opportunity to deal with the present. The Americans have made the German border symbols into an American monument: They have given shape to the American ideal of freedom and, within the scope of their possibilities, set a sign for the observance of national values. The parts of the wall come into discussion as objects, but also as supposed symbols for national values: The American Sector investigates the question: What significance does the symbol that Berlin once was for the world have today, since the wall has lost its function and? is still issued at most? Has the historical potential symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall been used or wasted? Can the parts of the Wall still evoke history in the present, when there is much debate about public commemoration? Using remains from the Cold War, the audience sees a meticulous anthropological and urban inventory of a lost world order.
production
Courtney Stephens and Pacho Velez directed, Pacho Velez also directed the camera and produced. Dounia Sichov and Courtney Stephens were responsible for the film editing. Executive producers were Joe Poletto and Sam Roseme. The production of the film was in the hands of the US production company Asterlight.
The planned budget was $ 200,000. The team drove through the USA for 18 months while filming.
The film premiered on February 21, 2020 the Berlin world premiere and ran there in the section Berlinale Special .
Awards
The film has been nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Award at the Berlinale 2020 . The American Sector was invited to the Luxembourg City Film Festival 2020 and Doc Aviv in Tel Aviv .
Web links
- Profile at berlinale.de
- The American Sector in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The American Sector. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e The American Sector. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
- ^ David Reynolds : From World War to Cold War. Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 0-19-928411-3 , pp. 257-260, quotation p. 260 : "the Fulton speech [has] been understood as the clarion call to Cold War".
- ↑ a b THE AMERICAN SECTOR | Luxembourg City Film Festival. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d The American Sector | Wexner Center for the Arts. Accessed February 16, 2020 .
- ^ THE AMERICAN SECTOR (preview screening) with filmmaker Courtney Stephens. In: UCSC Center for Documentary Arts and Research. January 7, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Berlinale Documentary Film Prize - donated by the rbb. In: berlinale.de. February 4, 2020, accessed February 16, 2020 .
- ^ The American Sector - Courtney Stephens. Retrieved February 16, 2020 .