Interested in the role firefighting plays in the city’s day-to-day emergencies, Alona Rodeh joined the fire brigade on their 24-hour shifts as an artist-in-residence for a year. Performed by individual members of the Berlin Fire Brigade, the short film is a non-narrative and somewhat abstract visual collage of portraits of firefighters and their gear in action, shedding light on the fire fighter’s work, including long periods of anticipation and non-doing. The shooting took place in Friedrichshain, Wedding, Kreuzberg, and Charlottenburg-Nord Fire Stations, with additional scenes at Jaffa fire station, Tel Aviv.
HD single-channel color with sound
12:44 min in a loop
FULL PREVIEWPREVIEW FILE
ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, the Artist Dis-Placement Residency initiators, supported the project. The Berlin Senate Department of Culture and Europe and the Israel Lottery Council for Culture and Arts gave additional support.
Credits:
Director of photography and lighting: Itai Vinograd
Lighting assistant: Stefan Blahut
Sound and image editor: Daphna Keenan
Music samples: “Caravan,” Buddy Rich 1961
Pyrotechnics: Steffen Hänel
Color grading: Aviv Kosloff
With, in order of appearance: Olov Ludwig, Chris Wenzel, Christian Sonnenburg, Eric Ihlenfeld, Fabian Goldmann, Florian Kranawetter, Frank Buddrus, “Gino”.
