39C3

Theatre engineer Elias builds a fully functional steampunk submarine together with his friends. While Nico rescues people from the waves of the Mediterranean, the 70-year-old artist Jim advises: ”Don‘t do it. Don’t fix cars, but rather do something in life that you really want to”. Elias asks himself: Is there a decision to be made between self-realization and selfless-action? Upon what does responsibility towards individuals or larger society depend?
ABOUT WATER AND DREAMS is a philosophical journey that questions the meaningfulness of our actions and dares to dream publicly in our dreamless society.
Documentary film about the submarine project presented at 37C3 with a lecture.
Lecture - “How to build a submarine and survive” by Elias and Nico

German with english subitles

www.traumtaucher-film.de

www.tiefenruder.de

Picture: ©Christoph Fleischer