Blackout - Außer Kontrolle

The film “Blackout - Außer Kontrolle” views a potential power outage not as a disaster fantasy, but as an analytical lens through which to examine a highly interconnected society. Taking the shared heartbeat of the European power grid as its starting point, the film shows just how much our everyday sense of security depends on complex interdependencies—between energy, communication, mobility, health, and global supply chains. Interviews with experts in crisis management, infrastructure, medicine, and science make it clear that it is not only technology but also human decisions that can either foster stability or trigger escalation. The film deliberately operates on a meta-level between control and loss of control, asking what happens when systems we take for granted begin to falter.