B. T. R. (BORN TO RUN)

2020, HD video, 20min. 3sec., black and white & color, 1920 x 1080, with sound
Written, Edited & Directed by NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD
Director of Photography VALENTIN GIEBEL
Sound & Music CARLOS PABLO VILLAMIZAR / Special thanks to DJ HELL
Starring ANASTASIA KEREN / THINLEY WINGEN / ALEXANDER SKOROBOGATOV / LUCIE SCHÖNEFELD / ODA LANGNER / EMIL VON GWINNER / KESCHIA ZIMBINGA / ANA DOSSANTOS / CHANTAL HOUNTONDJI / NASRA MOHAMAD MUT / YUKO TANAKA BETTS / FALKO NICKEL / JOHANNA LANGNER / ANNA ESDAL / STELLA JUNGHANSS / NINA PHILIPP / MIKE BETTS / CHRISTOPHER SCHÖNEFELD / JOANNA BUCHOWSKA / ALEXANDER SUDIN / ANDREAS TEMPLIN / DIRK LEHR / GINGER FIKUS / TALIA BAKKAL / ACELYA BELLICAN / MARLAH LEWIS / AMIRA YASMIN / JOSEPHINE LANG / LEO BURKHARDT / LISA NASNER / VIOLETTA WEYER / MARINA WILDE / TIMOTHY LONG / SEAN JACKSON / RILEY WARREN / KATJA TURELLA & HANSA WISSKIRCHEN

B. T. R. (BORN TO RUN) is set in the year 2043 and revolves around the increasing strength of authoritarian autocracies, the restriction of journalists and freedom of speech. Authoritarian media corpo-rations control world events; escape from total control seems almost impossible. Children and young people are trained in training camps to become killing machines. But at a certain point in the drill, the young protagonist S.K.Y. releases defense mechanisms. She drops out. Her research into her own identity, stolen by the state, leads her step by step to active resistance. The artistic adaption is based on detailed research (e.g. on Julian Assange & Edward Snowden, Cambridge Analytica, investigative journalism and far-right movements). Quotes from the film such as “Think of the press as a big keyboard for the government to play on” come from politicians and leaders of the Third Reich - in this case Joseph Goebbels. Statements of this kind can also be found in the speeches of right- wing parties around the world today. Such right-wing strategies of instrumentalization can increasingly be found in the speeches of right-wing parties around the world today.