Fury Is a Feeling Too
(Boz zu Sein ist auch ein von Gefuhl)
A question of language, spoken and visual, is at the center of this study of Berlin as viewed by a foreigner--Cynthia Beatt, a Jamaican-born British subject who has lived in Berlin for a decade, and here reveals her intense reaction to the barriers which still exist for her. Fury...is also a revealing architectural portrait of the soul and history of Berlin shot by Elfi Mikesch et al within one square kilometer of the pre-war center of Berlin where Beatt lives. The film, which took a prestigious 1st-prize at the Melbourne Film Festival, is called by Village Voice critic Amy Taubin, “one of the most interesting films of the past year. Beatt...uses techniques of ethnographic filmmaking...for expressive rather than analytic ends.... Remarkably elegant in concept....”