GLADBECK 'THE HOSTAGE CRISIS'
Gladbeck, Germany, August 1988: Two gangsters rob a bank, take two bank employees hostage and embark on an odyssey across West Germany. As the hours turn into days they hijack a bus carrying almost thirty passengers.The police lose control of the situation while reporters get a whiff of a sensation and inject themselves into a crime that blossoms into a media event. For three days, the eyes and ears of the entire country are glued to live television, live radio and newspapers – and before it’s all over, three innocent people are dead.
GLADBECK:THE HOSTAGE CRISIS tells this gripping story exclusively using archive materials, including news, live reports, telephone recordings and amateur recordings made over the three days of the hostage rampage.The film is an unsparing look at the moment when news became merchandise and crime became spectacle - it marks the beginning of an era that persists today.
Time Based Arts helped in the development of the project with Film Five. We went on to design the visual identity of the film and build an analog pipeline to allow us to bring the authentic textures of the period to all of the graphical content. We also onlined and graded the project providing full picture post.
