German premiere

English, Mandarin with English subtitles

Animating a host of dispersed fragments from historical documents to architectural remnants, Sunless Haven looks at the river Thames in London as a resonant chamber connecting disparate worlds. Woven into the film are attempts to understand the docklands as a meeting place between different ecologies, enclosures and epochs, as a point of entanglement of the city and world. The film looks at ways to describe and embody these enmeshed histories from the legacy of police persecution of seamen to experiences of London by Amahs, Chinese nannies brought back from the colonies and abandoned in the city after the voyage.

• Programm Programme: A Tangled Depth