BONANZA Berlin

Bonanza is a unique film portrait of an abandoned mining town. Once inhabited by over 6000 miners, traders, adventurers and prostitutes and boasting 36 saloons and 7 dance halls, it now is home to 7 permanent residents. In search of solitude and spirituality, they find a world in miniature, with its share of accusations, gossip, murder and fear.
Cities where you get to know all of the residents are rare. But in Bonanza it is possible. Berlin portrays this microcosm using a scale model of the city and five television screens. The screens present the citizens of Bonanza, the scale model gives the audience a lively experience of distances and proportions.

Bonanza is the third part of the Holocene cycle (the current geological period), a series of portraits of towns and cities that also covers Jerusalem (2004), Iqaluit (2005) and Moscow (2009). Berlin presents these documentary videos in theatrical settings, minutely planned and directed. Bonanza was selected as one of the best theatre performances of Flanders and the Netherlands in 2007. The jury report says: Bonanza has no live performers, but is definitely theatrical. Although many theatre companies currently draw inspiration from film, Berlin takes this tendency to its extreme. The result is impressive.
INFO: http://www.berlinberlin.be/

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Film & Animation

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[medicinemanhb]

hey how can i get a copy of this film? mark is a close family member of mine =)