Nucleus is an experimental short film by the director Tobias Bieseke based on the Korsakow system according to Florian Thalhofer.
The story focuses on the researcher Falk Marna (played by Christoph Gummert) who manages to visualise a kind of communication in carbon atoms. Falk believed that he had identified what the souls of his fellow human beings guides. Yolanda, his colleague, believed that the excited state of carbon atoms was not a plot of nature but rather a delusion by Falk.
The experimental film was made in the streets of Dortmund as well as in the Dortmunder U (first floor of the KiU / Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Art) where the film is also about to be presented at the end of 2017. A special feature of the work is the film’s narrative structure as well as its presentation of the so-called Korsakow system according to Florian Thalhofer: A non-linear, randomly controlled narrative form which has proven itself so far in documentary films. With his short film, Tobias Bieseke put this to the test and examines whether this system can also be applied to dramatic-narrative stories without losing tension and dramatic structure.
