There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Immanuel Kant
Introduction to the Critique of Pure Reason

Born in the body (...and in time...) Achtung - Die Achtung (Concentration Chair) takes a close look at the surface of the human body. Photographed over the course of eight years, the film shows six men and one pregnant woman who sit in or stand near a wire-mesh chair. They all exhibit their tattoos, piercings and scars. With a somehow spiritual concentration, a young man begins to actually pierce, in front of the camera, various delicate parts of his body. The explicit imagery, underlined by a faint but intriguing soundtrack, provokes a disturbing, almost physical effect on the spectator. At the same time, Brynntrup's film plays with the fundamental patterns of a Christian theatre of lust, pain and transgression.