The Shipwrecked Triptych

 

   

The Shipwrecked Triptych Part I: Mutiny

2023, 16 mm kodachrome duration: 30 minutes

New Years Eve 1982 in an elderly home in Germany. The nurses decide to put the inhabitants to sleep early to have a party.

 

The Shipwrecked Triptych Part II: Boarding

2023, 35 mm transferred to VHS, duration: 30 minutes

A bureaucrat turns up unexpectedly to inspect a Congolese family on a hot summer’s day in Western Germany in the late 1980’s. As he stays around after it gets dark, the parents begin to expect that something isn’t right.