On election night we meet Peter, an idealistic young man, who suddenly discovers he has forgotten to vote. On his way to the polls he encounters a variety of taxi drivers, all racist in their way and Peter has to decide whether to stand up for his convictions or getting to the polls on time. The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Wahlnacht, Noche de elecciones, 选举之夜
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Anders Thomas's greatest short film (if not his whole career). Essentially, it's a scathing satire about a guy who goes to vote on election night only to be confronted along the way by individuals with highly discriminatory and racist views, initially by white males, but Thomas reveals that racism is not restricted to one group and that we are all complicit. The ending is a brutal, ironic, but absolutely realistic twist. Some might even call it tragic.
All in all, Thomas does an excellent job of summarizing his argument in a concise and fun manner, with a strong statement that some may find hard to swallow.
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Begotten
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Wir sind alle Rassisten. Mal mehr, mal weniger. Es kommt immer auf die Situation an. Für diese aus heutiger Sicht nicht besonders neue, aber kurzweilig umgesetzte Erkenntnis gab es immerhin einen Oscar als anerkennendes Zeichen.
In erster Linie beweist Election Night deshalb knapp 20 Jahre nach seiner Veröffentlichung, dass der Diskurs um Alltagsrassismus noch lange nicht zu Ende ist (und wohl leider niemals sein wird), aber das Bewusstsein dafür deutlich geschärft wurde. Und diese Erkenntnis tröstet mich auch mehr als darüber hinweg, dass Anders Thomas Jensen dafür nach zwei Nominierungen seinen ersten großen Award von vielen weiteren bekommen hat.
Was für ein größeres Lob kann man für eine Ausnahmeerscheinung wie Jensen aussprechen, als dass er für sein schwächstes Werk einen Oscar bekommt?
Komplett verfügbar hier: https://youtu.be/pF5NOdaId1k
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The World Is More Than Enough 2: Back To The 30 Countries (24/30 - Denmark)
I bet Nigel Farage has watched this in the last few days.
Ooh political satire here on Letterboxd! But not for long. This Oscar winning short film starring Ulrich Thomsen who, I believe, has been in every Danish film in the last 20 years, sees Thomsen struggle with a succession of racist taxi drivers as he scrambles across city to vote in a general election.
It's not actually hugely funny but it is very clever, especially in the last couple of minutes or so and highlights the complexity of the issue of racism very succinctly indeed. Director Anders Thomas Jensen has since gone on to…
It's clever in the many faces racism can take: from the overt slinging of slurs to weirdly "over-sympathizing" from afar without ever actually removing barriers or ways of thought. In its short runtime Election Night runs down all the easy mistakes in a brilliant way.
And literally nothing has changed from 1998 to now, the same behaviors are just as prevalent and infuriating or ridiculous to this day.
my mum was school mates with anders thomas jensen
he kept his oscar in the toilet
