DER KAISER VON ATLANTIS

Co-directed with longtime collaborator Yuval Sharon, Viktor Ullman's Der Kaiser von Atlantis is reimagined as a puppet show performed in a concentration camp of the future — live broadcast to an imaginary audience. The prisoners are compelled to create the show by an elusive authoritarian prescence establishing itself through ubiquitous surveillance cameras. 


How does the promise of 'self-expression' in social media become a sort of 'confinement'?  And how does the camera eye become not only a tool of authoritarian forces — but a new sort of menacing authority in and of itself?