Aufzug (2012)

• 82%
• 2012
• Daniel-Frantisek Kamen
• Tomas Spencer
• Robert Baum

The story is set some time in the past, or maybe some time in the future. Given a time-frame, we would say somewhere between the American moonwalk, and Coca - Cola's serious ambition to turn the moon into an advertising logo. Our central character, the young ascenseur opérateur is formed by experience into cynisme, detachment, and apathy. The story versions to its crescendo: of public outrage and state crackdown; the banality of commercial interest and the monumental rape of nature. Set in a large newspaper office, the Lift is a place of relative sécurité. But floor by floor, with each passenger in his or her tableau, the atmosphere of mayhem seeps dans. Finally our young character leaves the situation, far gone " hopelessness and disinterest.