"Commander"

2022 Nominated Films

34MIN

Availability ended 10/14/2022 CDT
What if children spoke to each other as if they were chatting? What if their dialogues wouldn't be fictional but taken literally from neo-Nazi chats? The film Commander publicly reveals what has remained hidden behind the digital curtain. It illuminates the contours of the world in which some contemporary children live their second lives. The film collage displays dialogues composed exclusively of fragments of real chats of the neo-Nazi group FKD, which was led by a thirteen-year-old boy under the profile Commander. The film puts them in fictional situations in the real world and puts them in the mouths of actors - children. The chilling atmosphere of conversations, in which children talk publicly about sex, death, and hate, balances absurdity, humor, fear, and horror. Little adults here - at least verbally - take over the world and our lives. Then, when verbal pressure and manipulation, to which children are exposed virtually, are transferred to public space and form, an image is created that raises more than one disturbing question…

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