Substance

Substanz

Director

Sebastian Mez

Producer

Sebastian Mez

Cinematographer

Sebastian Mez

Editor

Sebastian Mez

Sound

Sebastian Mez

Contact

Levitate Films
Gneisenaustrasse 83,
10961 Berlin, Germany
+4917620185063
[email protected]</p>

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2014

Germany

14 min

Color

Working with footage that the filmmaker captured in Japan 2011 right after an unimaginable catastrophe hit the country, this cinematic composition examine the randomness and distance of the footage itself, in order to attain a new level of perception by overlapping image and sound and therefore recreating a sensation of being lost in a foreign country under state of emergency.

Directors' Biography

<p>Sebastian Mez, born in 1982 in Essen, Germany, began to study at Filmakademie Baden Württemberg in 2007, specializing in directing. His first short Clean Up was shown at more than 40 international film festivals and won several prices. His film Ein Brief aus Deutschland, won the international middle length competition at Visions du Réel in Nyon in 2011. His first feature Metamorphosen premiered at the Berlinale 2013 followed by numerous festivals like BAFICI, Indie Lisboa and CPH:DOX.</p>

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