SEBASTIAN MEZ
CLEAN UP
Film Editing Sebastian Mez Camera Operator Julia Schlingmann Production Designer Janine Dittmann Art Direction Christoph Arni / Christian Trieloff / Sebastian Mez Producer Christoph Arni Cinematography Christian Trieloff Sound Design Sebastian Mez Director Sebastian Mez
Running Time 9‘ Source Format HD Master Format 35mm 1:2.35 Dolby Stereo / DCP / HDCAM / BluRay / Digital Betacam Subtitles english
It`s his job to clean this special room, an execution chamber at a state prison in the United States. Everytime there is an execution, he has to recover this place as it was before. This experimental short film gives an abnormal view on the death penalty.
Festivals
Festival dei Popoli Florence/Italy
Exground Filmfestival Wiesbaden/Germany
Human Rights Arts & Filmfestival Melbourne/Australia
Zinebi - International Documentary Filmfestival Bilbao/Spain
FILMZ Festival of German Cinema Mainz/Germany
31es Recontres Henri Langlois/Belgium
Docpoint Helsinki/Finland
7th Human Rights Filmfestival San Sebastian/Spain
German Films Next Generation in Cannes/France
International Filmfestival Emden/Germany
Filmfestival Granada/Spain
Konstanzer Kurzfilmspiele/Germany
Internationales Festival of Cinema Schools Huy/Belgium
Shnit - International Shortfilmfestival/Schwitzerland
Filmfestival Warsaw/Poland
16th Barcelona Independent Filmfestival/Spain
Kerry Filmfestival/Ireland
International Documentary Filmfestival Jihlava/Czech Republic
Skena Up Filmfestival Prostina/Kosovo
Aubagne International Filmfestival/France
8ème Festival international Signes de Nuit
Addis International Filmfestival/Ethiopiea
Fresh Wave Short Film Festival/China
NoemArt Filmfestival/Italy
Molodist Kiev International Filmfestival/Ukraine
Bucharest Experimental Film Festival/Romania
International Bi-annual for School Films in Gammarth/Tunesia
La Boca Del Lobo Festival in Madrid / Spain
Shanghai International Film Festival
Budapest Short Film Festival / Hungary
International Short Film Festival of Cyprus / Cyprus
This Human World Film Festival in Vienna / Austria
Getxo Festival for Diversity and against Discrimination in Getxo / Spain
Awards
Gold Mikeldi for best Documentary Film at Bilbao Zinebi 2008
Grand Prix International at Festival International des Ecole de Cinema Belgium 2009