Films by Konrad Hempel

Germany 2018, 95 min
by Claudia Lehmann

The German Electron Synchrotron in Hamburg, DESY for short, is home to some of the largest particle accelerators in the world and, as an international research centre, is already a world of its own. This is where elementary particles clash. This is also where filmmaker Claudia Lehmann lets her former doctoral supervisor, physics professor Gerhard Mack, clash with other scientists as well as with a shaman, his partner or filmmaker Hark Bohm. They all confront him with questions about our very exi