Films by Nikolai Huber

Germany 2017, 20 min
by Sylvain Cruiziat

When we think of warfare, we usually think of soldiers taking on the enemy at close range in a savage life-or-death battle. In recent years, however, this is by no means always the case. High in the skies above Afghanistan, drones are flying, directly controlled from a screen somewhere in the United States. All it takes is to go through a fixed series of protocols and press a button, and the target is then eliminated. In this short documentary, drone pilots talk about this chilling work. For day