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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.
"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."
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
© 2002 Stefanie Brockhaus
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