A documentary portrait of a self-built prison in which men can be imprisened and tortured voluntarily. “The inhabitants of the prison system are players in a game that not only reproduces the logic of power, domination and oppression, but makes it his own. The nightmare of adhesive is designed using this method as a parody and pleasure principle. The observational documentary approach that gives ironically the power play his credibility complicit takes part to the fiction of the room. It is only the fictional space of the prison, which ultimately can evoke the stage of a possible freedom.” Giona A. Nazzaro (Programmer and Filmcritic). // The Jan Soldat screening was cocurated and organised by Alex Demetriou.

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Born in Karl Marx Stadt (now Chemnitz) on 21.2.1984, he has been making short films at Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt since 2006. He took up studies in film and television directing at the ‘Konrad Wolf’ College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg in 2008. His documentary „Geliebt / Be loved“ about Zoophilia, sexual and emotional realtionships between men and dogs, participated on the short film competiton of the Berlinale in 2010. Two years later he took part again with his Coming-Of-Age short fiction „CRAZY DENNIS TIGER“ in the Youth Program of the Berlinale, the Generation 14plus. Also in 2012 his documentary short „LAW and ORDER“, about two elderly men and their sadomasochistic fetishes, was screened in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. His film school gratuation „Der Unfertige / The Incomplete“ won the CineMAXXI Award for best short film at the 8 th Rome Film Festival in 2013. „Haftanlage 4614 / Prison System 4614“ was screened at the 65th Berlinale Panorama in 2015. It's the second part of his four-part prisonplay-observation.