Your family photos are hiding something toxic—this filmmaker went digging.
SCHICHT (SHIFT) is both a reckoning and a search for traces of the past. Layer by layer the film unfolds the portrait of the filmmaker's family - brought to life by records from private archives - and embarks on a dizzying trip through the shrinking industrial city of Salzgitter, Germany.
Direction
Gerbaulet's archival alchemy turns home movies into political grenades.
Editing
Layered montage that collapses decades into devastating collisions.
Director
Alex Gerbaulet
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Salzgitter was a Nazi 'model city' built around steel; Gerbaulet excavates how postwar Germany never truly reckoned with its industrial sins.
The title's double meaning—work shift and seismic shift—only fully lands when you realize the filmmaker's own labor mirrors her ancestors': extracting value from destruction.
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