“Sonne Unter Tage” (Sun Under Ground, 2022, 39 min.) is an essayistic film in which Mareike Bernien and Alex Gerbaulet address uranium mining in Saxony and Thuringia during the GDR era. The starting point was their interest in industrial history, questions of memory politics, and a political understanding of landscape. It was important to them to focus on practices of self-empowerment, such as those of the GDR environmental movement. The filmmakers follow the element uranium through conversations with activists, residents, and former miners.
In “Tiefenschärfe” (Depth of Field, 2017, 14:30 min.), Bernien and Gerbaulet examine places in Nuremberg where the so-called National Socialist Underground (NSU) committed three murders between 2000 and 2005. In a blatant reversal of victim and perpetrator, the racist police investigations were exclusively directed against the murder victims and their families until the NSU’s self-disclosure in 2011.
Bernien and Gerbaulet are part of the production platform pong film and make films both collaboratively and individually.
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Sun Under Ground, 2022, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 2 MB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Sun Under Ground, 2022, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 1 MB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Sun Under Ground, 2022, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 636 KB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Sonne Unter Tage, 2022, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 3 MB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Sun Under Ground, 2022, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 2 MB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Sun Under Ground, 2022, film still, © Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 1 MB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Depth of Field, 2017, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 1,009 KB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Depth of Field, 2017, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 726 KB)
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Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet, Depth of Field, 2017, film still, © pong film, Courtesy Mareike Bernien & Alex Gerbaulet (JPG, 851 KB)
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