Madman's Dictionary
Director Benno Trautmann
Countries Germany
Duration 63 min
Synopsis
The topic: destruction. The structure: association of pictures, scenes, sounds and headwords of a fictitious Madman's Dictionary, not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action. The main character: homo sapiens, the pride of creation, master of disaster, exterminator and self-exterminator. The basic question: why does homo sapiens destroy his living conditions? There is no answer to that question, but the question rotates in my brain, when I started making pictures and sounds without faces and voices of humans. Looking for traces of man-made destruction I found visible and invisible signs of violation, contamination, extermination and the omen of self-extermination: homo sapiens going gaga.
The topic: destruction. The structure: association of pictures, scenes, sounds and headwords of a fictitious Madman's Dictionary, not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action. The main character: homo sapiens, the pride of creation, master of disaster, exterminator and self-exterminator. The basic question: why does homo sapiens destroy his living conditions? There is no answer to that question, but the question rotates in my brain, when I started making pictures and sounds without faces and voices of humans. Looking for traces of man-made destruction I found visible and invisible signs of violation, contamination, extermination and the omen of self-extermination: homo sapiens going gaga.