Kia Krebs

CHAIRITY is the television report of a journalist obsessed with a savior complex, who wants to draw attention to the suffering of her protagonists. With all filmic means she tries to artificially create drama and to frame her interview partners as pitiful victims. But latest in the interviews her clichéd ideas collide with reality.

Laboratory rats are born under neon lights, in endlessly stacked plastic trays. Here, the relationship between man and animal is ambivalent: tenderness comes gloved in latex, and the violence of experiments looms on the horizon. With remarkable framing and sound design, Gene:sis takes us right into the animal’s point of view.

Laboratory rats are born under neon lights, in endlessly stacked plastic trays. Here, the relationship between man and animal is ambivalent: tenderness comes gloved in latex, and the violence of experiments looms on the horizon. With remarkable framing and sound design, Gene:sis takes us right into the animal’s point of view.