Helénes - Apparition Of Freedom

In 1998, Christoph Draeger found in Hungary, in a former civil protection/disaster prevention camp, a storage room with some TV and editing equipment, and shelves with dozens of 16mm film rolls. He decided to smuggle at least one roll out – which is the film Helenés, a dramatic and apocalyptic rendering of one of the exercises they performed during the Cold War, in anticipation of the nuclear holocaust of World War III. In 2005, he decided to subtitle the narrator’s voice with one of George W. Bush's presidential election speeches. That way, both form a new symbiosis.