Organized
Director Jörg Haaßengier & Jürgen Brügger
Countries Germany
Duration 80 min
Synopsis
Seemingly normal citizens who become intoxicated on their own strange home-brewed statistics or who conduct complicated experiments on themselves to better assess the legitimacy of their own bodily functions, researchers dealing with varying degrees of order who struggle with the fact that their exact areas of expertise are impossible to define, dubious bureaucratic planning visions: is order really only half the story? Creating order can become a real challenge in itself, a golden promise, maybe even a source of salvation, or to dive into the wunderkammer of a reality which appears more complete, more harmonic, more perfect than the world outside. But what happens when the creation of order with its own internal logic and momentum finds itself applied to monstrously large and long-term state and commercial projects? The self-absorption – harmless when applied to basement hobbies – the precise ordering of every concievable sign of life in cunning categories may well seem idiotic to us but it can get uncomfortable when it becomes part of establishing social structures, creating the order which we use for orientation in our lives. The film is about surveyors, self-observers, bacteria collectors and social researchers. It looks at German drivers' parking behaviour and shows how the innermost order of the world can be seen in a tortoise's shell. All that in only seven chapters.
Seemingly normal citizens who become intoxicated on their own strange home-brewed statistics or who conduct complicated experiments on themselves to better assess the legitimacy of their own bodily functions, researchers dealing with varying degrees of order who struggle with the fact that their exact areas of expertise are impossible to define, dubious bureaucratic planning visions: is order really only half the story? Creating order can become a real challenge in itself, a golden promise, maybe even a source of salvation, or to dive into the wunderkammer of a reality which appears more complete, more harmonic, more perfect than the world outside. But what happens when the creation of order with its own internal logic and momentum finds itself applied to monstrously large and long-term state and commercial projects? The self-absorption – harmless when applied to basement hobbies – the precise ordering of every concievable sign of life in cunning categories may well seem idiotic to us but it can get uncomfortable when it becomes part of establishing social structures, creating the order which we use for orientation in our lives. The film is about surveyors, self-observers, bacteria collectors and social researchers. It looks at German drivers' parking behaviour and shows how the innermost order of the world can be seen in a tortoise's shell. All that in only seven chapters.