Sleeping rough

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Homeless men and women in downtown Hamburg were filmed over a six-month period of ethnographic fieldwork. While homeless are often represented as outcasts of society, this film shows the construction of intricate social networks, with alliances and sanctions, not unlike those of the working and consuming public that occupies Hamburg's central business district during daytime. The camera offers a view of daily routines and work, as well as leisure time which is spent socializing on a public square equipped with a container for luggage. Intimately, and with sometimes disenchanted frankness the protagonists reflect on the circumstances of their situation between romance and tragedy, past disappointments and future ambitions.

Object Details

• Alternative title: Abgehakt
• Location: Hannover TIB
• Extent: 2383MB, 00:39:56:01 (unknown)
• Notes: Audiovisuelles Material ; Originalton ohne gesprochenen Text ; Original sound, no spoken text

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Sleeping rough ; (Jan. 2004)

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: fringe group ; economics and social sciences ; social groups ; poverty ; daily life ; fieldwork ; Europe ; Germany ; homelessness ; ethnology/cultural anthropology ; Hamburg ; social science

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): IWF (Göttingen)
• (when): 2004-01-01
• Contributor: Gruber, Martin ; Becker, Jochen

Further information

• DOI: 10.3203/IWF/C-12441
• Last update: 04.12.2024, 8:09 AM CET