Director
She first appeared on stage at the age of eleven with the legendary Krautrock band “Embryo”. Her father Christian Burchard founded the band in 1969 and led it until 2016. Today – in her mid-thirties – Marja Burchard is the bandleader in this project, which has become a kind of family for her. But what seems so simple and organic is far from self-evident in an extremely male-dominated sphere, as Rebecca Zehr shows in her precisely observed and designed film.
Producer
A kaleidoscopic vision of a mythical and contested place where tourists, mystics, pilgrims in search of Salvation or even entrepreneurs busy building luxury hotels rub shoulders. While the Dead Sea gradually disappears and the earth literally opens up under their feet, Dead Sea Dying offers an audacious rereading of the Biblical past, transfigured before our eyes into a curious dystopia.
Sound
A kaleidoscopic vision of a mythical and contested place where tourists, mystics, pilgrims in search of Salvation or even entrepreneurs busy building luxury hotels rub shoulders. While the Dead Sea gradually disappears and the earth literally opens up under their feet, Dead Sea Dying offers an audacious rereading of the Biblical past, transfigured before our eyes into a curious dystopia.
Director
A kaleidoscopic vision of a mythical and contested place where tourists, mystics, pilgrims in search of Salvation or even entrepreneurs busy building luxury hotels rub shoulders. While the Dead Sea gradually disappears and the earth literally opens up under their feet, Dead Sea Dying offers an audacious rereading of the Biblical past, transfigured before our eyes into a curious dystopia.
