Director’s Note

„Steinbrecher“ is an existentialist allegory. A man wakes up after a presumed accident and has fundamentally forgotten why he is here – his existence seems to have lost its essence. His hope is that he will soon be picked up by his sister, who he talks to on the phone all the time as if she was a salvation. She never comes, or maybe she comes too late. 

Set against the backdrop of a boiling hot stoneland where monstrous machines reduce every human being to miniature, Kai’s story is about entrapment and the disintegration of the self in the face of the ultimate void. The physical and mental landscapes mirror each other. Both explode in the end and become dust.