11.09.2024 | RAINER KOMERS: Short Film Reel

Three portraits of the Ruhr region and at the same time proof of the versatility of Rainer Komers’ documentary film work: ZIGEUENER IN DUISBURG is a sober but always sympathetic portrait of the lives of Sinti and Roma people who have been forcibly resettled on a site that is too small, reporting on the everyday hostility and harassment to which they are subjected. In contrast, EIN SCHLOSS FÜR ALLE is downright cheerful. The lives of a number of senior citizens in the working-class neighbourhood of Styrum in Mülheim are captured in a verbose, heartfelt way with a direct camera view. The narrative style of B 224 is completely different, compiling precisely framed, often static scenes of everyday life and work along the motorway that gives the film its title; a Ruhr “symphony” originates.