THE OTHER FIELDS – D, 2017, 84´ | FILM | COLABORATIONS | CONTACT

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCREENINGS:

22.04.2017, 21:15 h, visions du réel - World Premiere
23.04.2017, 12:00 h, visions du réel
06.11.2017, 21:00 h, duisburger filmwoche - Eröffnungsfilm
13.04.2018, 18:00 h, dokumentarfilmwoche hamburg
31.05.2018, 21:15 h, dokka

 

 





 

 

Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations,
some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are professional footballers, they are all unemployed.
and they look desperately for a job.

Every summer, when the major football teams fly their star athletes to training grounds in expensive and sunny locations,
some other players meet on a football field in Duisburg. Even though there are professional footballers, they are all unemployed.
And they look desperately for a job.
The Other Fields sheds a new and completely different light on the mythologies of contemporary football.
While some may think that “bling-bling” and “glitz” is all there is to modern football, Marco Kugel’s and Simon Quack’s film
shows the intricate economic and moral complexities behind the façade of entertainment. Dreams only last a season or two.
An athlete is only as good as his performance. The achievement-oriented society does not allow too many dreams (or dreamers…)
even though it is exactly dreams that are sold to audiences everywhere.
Footballers looking for a breakthrough but living constantly on the verge of failure are exchanged at a fast rate.

The Other Fields shows how the entertainment and sports system fits and basically is just another cog of the capitalistic production system.

 

Giona A. Nazzaro, Vision du réel

 




 

 

 

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