THE SYMPHONY OF UNCERTAINTY

a film by Claudia Lehmann and Konrad Hempel

a production of Tamtam Film in co-production with the Institut for experimental affairs with the kind support of Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein and Deutsches Elektronensynchrotron, Hamburg
distributed by déjà-vu Film

The German Electron Synchrotron in Hamburg, or DESY for short, houses some of the largest particle accelerators in the world and, as an international research facility, is itself a world apart. It is here that elementary particles meet; but it is also here that filmmaker Claudia Lehmann lets her former doctoral supervisor, physics professor Gerhard Mack, meet other scientists (including his own doctoral supervisor) as well as a shaman, his partner, or filmmaker Hark Bohm. They all confront him with questions about our existence – worldviews collide. With the theory of complex systems, Gerhard has always tried to understand life in an interdisciplinary way, and so he is also now trying to find a language that goes beyond the boundaries of mathematics and physics. Language is also the subject of the music that composer Konrad Hempel and his ensemble create on the site. He uses the sounds of the accelerators as well as those of the coffee cups to create the soundtrack of this world in which everyone wants to find a meaning for life.

Director: Claudia Lehmann
Co-Director: Konrad Hempel
Screenplay: Claudia Lehmann & Konrad Hempel
Director of Photographie: Eike Zuleeg
Composition: Konrad Hempel
Editing: Marianne von Deutsch & Claudia Lehmann
Original Sound: Corinna Zink
Sound Design & Mixing: Roman Vehlken
Grading: Frank Schumacher
Production Manager: Jan Philip Lange
Co-Producers: Claudia Lehmann & Konrad Hempel, IXA
Producers: Andrea Schütte & Dirk Decker, Tamtam Film

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