International Short Film Competition

The Fear of Dying in Transit

Ian Purnell
Germany, Switzerland
29
Spanish Premiere
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Synopsis

A technologically-controlled visit to the longest underground structure on the planet, the Gotthard base tunnel (Switzerland), gives us the chance to explore the worries, obsessions and escapes of a society faced with future that, beyond all its boasting of progress, is presented as overwhelming, inhuman and uncertain. (LGV)

Festivals

- Visions du Réel - International Competition, Short and Middle Length Films (2018)
- Open City - Documentary Festival London (2018)
- Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (2018)
- Stranger Than Fiction Dokumentarfilmfest (2018)
- Ann Arbor Film Festival (2019)

Biography of the director

Ian Purnell
Ian Purnell

Born in 1988 in Switzerland, he is a filmmaker, video artist and film editor. He studied experimental and documentary film in the postgraduate program of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) from 2013 to 2017 after receiving a Bachelors of Arts in Montage from the University of Film and Television Potsdam-Babelsberg. He works in the fields of documentary filmmaking, theatre and visual art.
Filmography: Exercising Perfection (2015); Island Sightings (2016); Dangerous Soil (2018); The Fear of Dying in Transit (2018)

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Sessions

May

Saturday 11
21:30 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
Followed by a Q&A
Sunday 12
16:00 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
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Credits

Language
German, Swiss German, English - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Ian Purnell
Screenplay
Ian Purnell
Cinematography
Marie Zahir
Editing
Ian Purnell, Simon Rittmeier
Sound
Simon Waskow, Timo Schaub, Jonathan Kastl
Production
Ian Purnell
Contact
ian.purnell@gmx.ch
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