N.O.R.O.C.2.3.

2020, HD video, 8min. 23sec., color, 1920 x 1080, with sound
Written, Edited & Directed by: NINA E. SCHÖNEFELD
Director of Photography: VALENTIN GIEBEL
Starring: ANA DOSSANTOS / CHANTAL HOUNTONDJI / NASRA MOHAMAD MUT / KESCHIA ZIMBINGA

Under the title N. O. R. O. C. 2. 3. life during a worldwide pandemic crisis is transported through gloomy dark images. It is about the feeling of constant insecurity and a panicky, invisible threat. 
The video is based on portraits of four independent women and a large pool of research materials. Historical quotations, passages from novels, series and films, political speeches, stock footage, video portraits and media reports from different periods of our history are put together in a kind of narrative video collage to create a “psychogram” of the time during a pandemic.
This narrative is accompanied by intense scenes, all of which take place at night. In the centre: four female protagonists roaming through empty cities whose silence conveys a deceptive feeling. Looking for a way out, they do not know what the next day will bring. The optimistic conclusion at the end: Out of stagnation grows something new.