Movie Details
Original Language:English
The Casting
DirectorOmer Fast
14 minDocumentary
Plot
Omer Fasts video installation The Casting is based on interviews held with a US Army sergeant before his renewed deployment in Iraq Fast describes the project During several days he told me two stories which I have interwoven The first took place in Bavaria and describes the sergeants relationship with a German girl who loves speed and selfmutilation The second story takes place outside Baghdad and deals with a bomb on the roadside and a tragic mistake Fast took these two stories and processed them into a screenplay which he then had interpreted by actors as a series of silent tableaux
