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EMPIRE ME

Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road movie covering land, water and the wildest realms of the imagination. Simultaneously creative documentary and pulsating cultural portrait, the film traces a new "unplugged" generation - their motives, their anxieties and their dreams. A film that shows how this generation realizes its escapist fantasies in new economic and political forms and how they collide with oppressive everyday realities.

EMPIRE ME Documentary. 100min. Location:worldwide. Cinematography: Enzo Brandner, Gerald Kerkletz, Jerzy Palacz Director: Paul Poet. Production: Navigatorfilm/Austria, Gebrueder Beetz Fim/Germany; 2008

WINNER OF "SPECIAL JURY AWARD" HUSTON, TEXAS WINNER OF "GRAND PRIX DU REBELLE"