Pressure Bolt (2003)

Original title

Druckbolzen

Directed by

Benjamin Diez

Genre

horror film, fiction film

Country

Germany

Runtime

9 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a bleak future, the last remnants of humanity are forced into endless repetitive labor. The short black and white film follows their hopeless existence inside an oppressive industrial system.

bleakclaustrophobicsurrealoppressiveslow-burngrimmonochromaticdreamlike

What happens

Pressure Bolt (German: Druckbolzen) is a 2003 German short live-action animated film created by Benni Diez and Marinko Spahić. Shot in black and white, the film has been described as a dystopian vision of the future, in which what remains of the human race is worked to death in a set of repetitive and meaningless tasks. The short film garnered praise and awards, mainly for its technical innovation. The short has been compared to the work of Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Alex Proyas, Terry Gilliam, and David Lynch. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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