The Abundance of Life
Director Werner Biedermann
Countries Germany
Duration 100 min
Synopsis
The documentary film The Abundance of Life probes – without comment - into life in the year 2013. It embarks on a contemporary and historial tracking to record the psycho-social condition of a country and its people. In an interplay of social expressions such as transport, agriculture, energy, architecture the individual needs for recreation as well as sports, consumerism and religion it maps out a panorama of the abundance of life. The portrait that emerges evokes questions about the consciousness of life that is expressed, the framework of the society which shows its traces and ultimately the meaning of life itself.
The documentary film The Abundance of Life probes – without comment - into life in the year 2013. It embarks on a contemporary and historial tracking to record the psycho-social condition of a country and its people. In an interplay of social expressions such as transport, agriculture, energy, architecture the individual needs for recreation as well as sports, consumerism and religion it maps out a panorama of the abundance of life. The portrait that emerges evokes questions about the consciousness of life that is expressed, the framework of the society which shows its traces and ultimately the meaning of life itself.