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The Longer You Bleed explores how war becomes spectacle in the age of endless scrolling. The film follows a group of displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, navigating a world of war through screens, where absurdist humour and compassion fatigue become survival tools in a reality oversaturated with trauma.
This personal documentary follows displaced Ukrainians in Berlin contending with the traumatic absurdity of watching their homeland burn, in real-time, through pixels on Instagram. Shot over the course of a year, the camera follows the director’s partner and her friends, who—far from the war but still deeply entangled in its emotional fallout—navigate their new reality amidst the daily storm of traumatic war imagery online. The documentary blends observational storytelling with experimental audiovisual sequences to map out the unsettling arc of compassion fatigue caused by the normalization of this disturbing reality.
The Longer You Bleed explores how war becomes spectacle in the age of endless scrolling. The film follows a group of displaced Ukrainians in Berlin, navigating a world of war through screens, where absurdist humour and compassion fatigue become survival tools in a reality oversaturated with trauma.
This personal documentary follows displaced Ukrainians in Berlin contending with the traumatic absurdity of watching their homeland burn, in real-time, through pixels on Instagram. Shot over the course of a year, the camera follows the director’s partner and her friends, who—far from the war but still deeply entangled in its emotional fallout—navigate their new reality amidst the daily storm of traumatic war imagery online. The documentary blends observational storytelling with experimental audiovisual sequences to map out the unsettling arc of compassion fatigue caused by the normalization of this disturbing reality.
