Ewe
EWE tells the story of a state, where monitoring and observation is part of everyday life. Every person is watcher as well as beeing watched, victim and offender at the same time - and everyone agrees with this kind of living. So does Nicolai, a successful journalist. For a long time he has forgotten about the cameras around him. Assiduously he is completing his watching-quota - until he takes a look behind the curtain of the holistic and democratic observation for the first time of his life... The movie tells the story through stills, beeing portent of cinematic motion - giving almost a glance of it without outbiding it. EWE designs in a documentary way a dark and yet ironic dystopia of a world where violation of privacy is a civic duty.
- Runtime
- 26m
- Released
- 2011
Details
Release year: 2011
Storyline
EWE tells the story of a state, where monitoring and observation is part of everyday life. Every person is watcher as well as beeing watched, victim and offender at the same time - and everyone agrees with this kind of living. So does Nicolai, a successful journalist. For a long time he has forgotten about the cameras around him. Assiduously he is completing his watching-quota - until he takes a look behind the curtain of the holistic and democratic observation for the first time of his life... The movie tells the story through stills, beeing portent of cinematic motion - giving almost a glance of it without outbiding it. EWE designs in a documentary way a dark and yet ironic dystopia of a world where violation of privacy is a civic duty.
Top credits
- Mathieu Charriére — Nicolai Wandlitz
- Johannes Franke — Nicolai Wandlitz
- Joost Renders — Hektor
- Martin Hamann — Pförtner, Tom