Director: Philip Widmann
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Biography: Philip Widmann, born in West Berlin, Germany, in 1980, he studied cultural anthropology, ethnology and American studies at Hamburg University and attended documentary film classes at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. He has been a member of the independent film collective LaborBerlin since 2009.
Country: Germany
Year: 2017
Synopsis: A Japanese philosopher writes a letter to a famous German colleague. He asks the German to
advise the Japanese people how to deal with the permeation of modern life by technology.
More than 50 years later, the same issues are being discussed among academics and
aspiring engineers. It is hard to grasp how humans and technology continue to coexist.
Resorting to biographical trivia, mythological histories and the recounting of dreams is not
helping them to see these issues any clearer. In the grainy images of the film, landscapes
from an uncertain time appear, occasionally flooded by water and a cacophony of brass
players. The uncontrollable finds its ways into a world that tries to minimise risks and thus
creates new dangers.