Your grandpa's existential crisis, but make it a 29-minute ritual.
X is a cinematic ritual aimed at appeasing the ancestral spirits of the industrial workforce. The film is inspired by the lives of the filmmaker’s father and grandfather, who also play the lead roles.
Direction
Casting her own father and grandfather—blurring documentary and fiction.
Cinematography
Industrial spaces shot like sacred sites of forgotten worship.
Director
Mareike Wegener
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
WeGener's father and grandfather had never acted before; their stiffness became the film's raw power.
The film channels Germany's Ruhr region deindustrialization—a specific grief now globalized.
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