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The crisis of training isn't a new topic, but all the more important in the political debates and the economic issues of the 21st century. The journalist report the neoliberal comments of the Secretary of State of Education and Research; the actors recite, during the audition, different parts of an unusual education novel by Robert Walser ; the teenager shows patiently his cover letter to find a job as an apprentice. Does anyone carries out his role ? In three heterogeneous episodes, the film essay "Nullzustand" shows how to subtly reconsider the training not as a guaranteed position in the "knowledge society", but as the subversive potential of the youth in transforming and renewing the world.

Laura von Niederhäusern structures her research with the film medium ; she has notably directed the film essays "Hier und Jetzt" (2009) and "Nullzustand" (2011). In 2009, she earns a diploma from the High Art & Design School of Genève where she studied critical theory in the master program of the "Critical Curatorial Cybermedia" (CCC). She is currently working as an assistant for the CCC program and takes part in the research project "Politics, collective memory and arts". She is the co-founder of the Uqbar association.