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JAM
Stefanie Brockhaus
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documentary | 2002 | London | 7 min
Published 19 Oct 06
A film observing people who are stuck in a long traffic jam on the Autobahn on the way to their summer holidays.
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Every year thousands of people migrate South towards their holiday destination. Hitting the street at the same time, the travellers cause overcrowding and inevitable congestion, which leads to endless jams on highways. I am interested in how and what is revealed in these desperate hours of stagnation. The almost surrealistic situation of standing still on the highway and waiting in your car in order to start driving is so contradictory, that it reveals a notion of humour.
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"I see the documentary as a metaphor, mirroring a wider and more abstract aspect of our society, in which we get into co-dependency of the system. The traffic jam reveals how people surrender to the situation in order to prevent the chaos within the chaos. The highway becomes a symbolic space, which is defined by railings, entrances and exits, in which people can’t move back or forth."
crew
  • director Stefanie Brockhaus
  • writer Stefanie Brockhaus
  • producer Stefanie Brockhaus
  • editor Anthony Collard
  • director of photography Stefanie Brockhaus & Lilian Simonsson
  • sound Jette Ahrens & Kimo Morrisson
festivals, awards and screenings include:
  • Lux Award for best experimental film, Halloween Short Film Festival 2004
  • Clermont- Ferrand Short Film Festival 2003
  • Independent Film Festival Barcelona 2002
  • International Documentary Festival Sheffield, 2002
  • Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 2002
  • Courtisane Short Film Festival, Belgium 2003
  • MOMA screening (Museum of Modern Art, NY), New York 2003
  • filmnach8, Munich 2004
  • Corner House, Manchester 2006
  • Video- Art and Film, Main Train Station, Casablanca 2006
  • format
    digital
    budget
    £500
    © 2002 Stefanie Brockhaus

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