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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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