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Desert of the real | © Christian von Borries
© Christian von Borries

Brief synopsis

It’s been six years since the real estate bubble burst, and already, the glittering ruins of developer architecture are being reclaimed by nature. Entire suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona are overgrown with tumbleweed. In post-Soviet Georgia, unfinished resorts rot on the Black Sea Coast. In Abu Dhabi, palm trees are dying among half-built film studios and sports complexes. It is where now the world’s biggest arms fair takes place, held in the same kind of desert that provides the location for most of our time’s real and virtual wars. Elsewhere, new man-made deserts take shape as shopping mall replicas of Venice, inhabited by the living dead...

Cast

ActorRole nameVoice actor / SpeakerVoice actor
Luisa TarazFrau [SR]
Kati Thiemer6 [SR]
Damla KleemeyerFrau [SR]

Crew

ActivityNameComment
DirectorChristian von Borries
EditorHalina Daugird
CPH:DOX 2017
CPH:DOX 2017
ScreenwriterChristian von Borries
Sound re-recording mixerSebastian Kleinloh
Restauration & Mischung
Restauration & Mischung

Cinema releases and premieres

TypeCountryDateComment
PremiereWednesday, 30/11/2016Film premiere (Academy of the Arts of the World, Filmforum / Cologne)