.. What is democracy? Freedom of expression, for example, believes the filmmaker Tino Salazar. You can disagree also, believes the U.S. Department of State. Apparently the US State Department has imagined a little brighter the theme, as it at the beginning of the year to the democracy video contest on you tube called: you have three minutes and everywhere in the world what want to tell everyone to reach you? was it in the trailer under the title democracy has a new challenge. Your vision, your voice, your video “called otherwise no freedom of cinematographic.

Perhaps Tino Salazar has taken a little too seriously the challenge, although he kept his post in the comic book look: in black and white images, edited in after effects, Swan man with street scenes shows graphically in New York the downsides of the brave new world: call homeless, surveillance cameras, security forces text boxes as a contrast, what democracy actually be want. Liked the audience: within 2 months the film achieved 9,000 clicks and got almost 300 votes. Thus he was leader in the competition,”reported Swan man, who studied at the Bauhaus in Dessau and at the Film Academy Baden-Wurttemberg. Nevertheless, he was not admitted in the next round of the competition. The justification: he focused only on the negative aspects of “American”democracy.”Don’t you think that the advantages that come with the freedoms outweigh the Minuspunte? (We do!) no further discussion. He met a sore spot there, suspects of commercial Director. His film, but a contribution to the discussion, in fact go out of the question, whether the United States is a democracy or a Republic. “Then he says that low access to the technical resources of our society inevitably denied the right to participate in the democracy vulnerable people.

The U.S. Department of State was too critical. A compilation with snippets of the 18 finalists, also on you to see tube shows Gayer images that promote the image of democracy in the brightest colors. Perhaps, ponders Swan man, he has filmed a documentary so accidentally. Sorrow he doesn’t himself nevertheless: early September his film by public referendum has the competition crime scene Earth “won the Aktion Mensch. At the time, democratic discourse in the global competition the Internet short film platform bit film, whose voting today to end go, and the InterVideo runs Swan man award, which is awarded in November at the Exground Film Festival in Wiesbaden.