Ute Adamczewski – Zustand und Gelände AKA Status and Terrain (2019)
The conceptual rigidity of Adamczewski’s film recalls the formal experiments of structural film in the 1970s. The care with which the film-maker handles her material has become rare in the digital age and for this reason deserves special attention. The tight cinematic framework into which Adamczewski forces the vigour of her research makes this film an extremely intense experience. It is the product of a generation determined to resist the right-wing movement in German society.
In quiet shots, Adamczewski shows us former “wild concentration camps” that were set up in Saxony, a former “stronghold of the labour movement”. “The spontaneously occupied community centres, workers’ sports clubs, barracks and factory buildings still exist today. Some are now restaurants, discount stores or simply fallow land, which seem harmless and interchangeable. […] Accompanying the film footage, which visualises present-day Saxony, the off-screen voice quotes various sources: administrative measures such as house searches, arrests, interrogations and confiscations, but also reports from former prisoners, newspaper articles and literary texts.” (Ute Adamczewski) (frauenfilmfest. com)
Zustand.und.Gelaende.German.2019.AC3.DOKU.DVDRip.x264-SAVASTANOS.mkv
General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1 h 59 min
Size: 1.50 GiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 700x404
Aspect ratio: 1.728
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 1 406 kb/s
BPP: 0.199
Audio
#1: German 5.1ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s
Language(s):German
Subtitles:None
