BATTLEFIELD

>>A highly politicized issue, realized in an extremely original way. This short really moved me.<<

Jessica Hausner

SYNOPSIS

Inspired by the quote of Austrian Expressionist, Oskar Kokoschka: „ Weeds are nature's opposition to the governance of gardeners“, BATTLEFIELD shows the inner life of a military base as a microcosm that seems to have fallen out of another time. Soldiers focus meticulously on gardening instead of preparing themselves for war. The grass-green battlefield gets a military buzz cut. The film depicts a dreamlike look into an imaginary future, where barracks appear as well maintained open-air museums. The tanks remain as relics, silent but admonishing. Some of them still work.

DOCUMENTARY / AT / DE  2020 /  8min

DIRECTOR:Jannis Lenz
CONCEPT: Jannis Lenz
PRODUCER: David Bohun
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jakob Fuhr
SOUND DESIGN: Rudolf Pototschnig
EDITOR: Jannis Lenz

FESTIVALS 

(SELECTION)

•  Sarajevo International Film Festival

•  Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal

•  Encounters- Bristol International Film Festival

•  Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film

•  Love & Anarchy- Helsinki International Film Festival

•  Go Short! International Film Festival Nijmegen

•  Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata FestiFreak

•  VIS Vienna Shorts

•  dotdotdot Open Air Short Film Festival

•  Sao Paulo International Film Festival

•  Orvieto Cinema Fest

•  Braunschweig International Film Festival

•  Uşak International Short Film Festival

•  Silk Road International Film Festival

•  Akbank International Short Film Festival

•  Regensburger Filmwoche - International Short Film Festival

•  Ethnocineca International  Film Festival

•  Lago Film Fest

•  FebioFest

•  International Short Film Festival Dhaka

•  25 FFPS Festival