UNDUNE
Synopsis:
Undune is a documentary about Terra Preta, Feces & Mars.
Terra Preta: a way to create a fertile, black soil out of our feces.
Yes, feces, turds, poop, number 2, whatever you want to call them,
they're inevitable and – strangely enough – valuable. In a mixture of
fiction and documentary, the Berlin filmmakers Gregor Pieplow and
Dennis Rätzel tackle this everyday taboo – and dare to ask: are we
wasting our waste when we flush?
Undune tells the story of Gregor,
a young physicist who wants to help colonize Mars. Through
interviews with Terra-Preta pioneers, Gregor begins to construct a
method for making human excrement usable on the red planet. His
interviewees believe in Terra Preta's potential to save our planet,
but Gregor seems to be more interested in cloaking
his surroundings in daydreams, including brief episodes that follow
the discoveries of a space explorer who's been stranded on Earth.
With the skewed perspective of a true outsider, the explorer
comments on mankind's peculiarities – including our fascination with
wasting our waste.
UNDUNE will make you ask yourself: Is there such a thing as
useless shit?
Official Selections:
- InScience Film Festival, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 2-6 November 2016
- CineEco, Seia, Portugal, 8 -15 October 2016
- Byron Bay International Film Festival, Australia, 14 - 23 October 2016
- Life Science Film Festival, Prague, Chech Republic, 17-23 October 2016
- BIFED, Bozcaada, 12-16 October 2016
- TrueDoc Documentary Festival, Ukraine, 8 - 10 September 2016
- WIND International Film Festival, Hollywood, US, July 5-7 2016
Nominated Best Documentary
- Screenings in Moscow:
Pokrovskoe-Streshnevo Park - July, 19, 8 pm
Sokolniki Park - July, 20, 8 pm
Kuzminki Park - July, 26, 8 pm
Biryulevo Park - July, 26, 8 pm
Kuskovo Park - July, 26, 8 pm
Serebryany Bor Park - July, 26, 8 pm
- Screening on 23rd July in Berlin
- Nature Vision, Ludwigsburg, Germany, 24 July 2016 | 13:00
- Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental FINCA Buenos Aires,
1-8 June 2016
- University Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia 01 June 2016
- Barents Ecology Film Festival - BEFF, Russia, 22 April - 3 May
- BUZZ CEE - International Film Festival, Buzau, Romania, 4-8 May 2016
- Festival Internacional de Cine Ambiental FINCA Buenos Aires,
1-8 June 2016
UNDUNE Official Trailer from Dimitris Argyriou on Vimeo.
UNDUNE
Credits
Director : Dennis Rätzel
Buch: Gregor Pieplow /Dennis Rätzel/ Lydia Böttcher
Produktion: Dennis Rätzel/ Gregor Pieplow /Dimitris Argyriou
Cinematographer: Anne Braun
Edit: Dimitris Argyriou
Art-Director : Gregor Pieplow
Music Score: KRTS
Animations: Gregor Pieplow
Camera Operators: Anne Braun/ Hannes Francke/ Jennifer Ort /Marius Muche/
Tomasz Winczewski/ Thomas Loos
Sound recording: Jakob Schleicher
A.D. : Sören Eichhorst /Lydia Böttcher/ Christine Hesse
Set-Runner : Laura Cramer/ Judith Stündl/ Theresa Schlamp
Mask Maker: Manuel Müller
Costume Designer: Aileen Klein /Gregor Pieplow / Atelier Pink Passion /
Rebekka Rinner /Thomas Nahlob
Scenery: Max Kurpiers/ Ludwig Dobe /Franziska Schulz /Johannes Regin/ Thomas Nahlob/ Marlene Stepp/ Lydia Böttcher
Gaffer: Anne Braun /Alexander Heimen
3D-Animation Mars Christof /Zink Zeitrafferaufnahmen BOX65
Color Grading: Dimitris Argyriou/ Hannes Francke
Sound-Design and mixing: Kai Müller
Cast: Gregor Pieplow
Interviewpartner: Haiko Pieplow , Peter Thomas, Marko Heckel, Ralf Otterpohl, Ulrich Braun, Tobias Morgenstern, Annemarie Kaiser
Subtitles: Stephanie Geiges/ Marius Muche
