David Baeumler

Documentary on the main principles of Sun Tsu "Art of War" illustrated with examples from the second world war, the Vietnam war and the American civil war.

The Fifth Floor is an ascent. It takes us on a journey through layered imagery that includes 8mm home movies decayed by time, luminous kaleidoscopic patterns, and sacred geometry. The two visual worlds compete and collide. Moments of clarity dissolve. Ultimately it becomes a meditation on the beauty of loss, decay, and transcendence.

This piece does radical justice to the widely observable tendency of increasingly shorter communication sequences by offering four short films at once, tinged in the aesthetic of a commercial break on TV: Attack the System, a blessing for your enemies; Zabrinor, the ultimate drug for the modern world; We Shall Overcoat, an argument over a revolutionary rainbow; and Evil Man, a study of why bad things happen. (tr)

A new collection of short vignettes that offer quirky insights into human nature with humor, nostalgia, and existential musings.