In her documentary ELECTRICITY - TESTING THE DARK the Berlin-based independent filmmaker Eva Heldmann interviews five people who cannot pay their electricity bills.
They live below the poverty line without light and heat, in or near large cities. Her film premiered at the Berlinale's Forum Expanded.
They speak of how they lost work, then electricity, then hope, and finally found clever solutions to their precarious situations. On a second filmic level, the Berlin artist and actress Laurence Grave uses her inner senses to explore the bleakness of a home without current. She is extra sensitive to the changes of light, day and night, through her windows. In the end the actress rises from her dark world to dizzy heights, flashing with her own electricity, remaking the rules of the game.
