Das Handwerk, the German Federation of Craftsmen, turns the act of fixing a broken boiler into a modern-day Western.

The two-minute film is set in a snowy modern version of a Western town, where an old lady comes screaming out of her house in terror. She flags down a plumber in his truck, who bursts down the door of the house cowboy-style to find a priest appearing to be performing some kind of exorcism. To tense banjo music, he descends to the peril in basement and wrestles with the roaring iron stove, eventually transforming it into a modern-looking boiler. Then, he drives off into the sunset, watched by the grateful old lady and her admiring daughter, as the caption on screen asks: "So. What did you do today?”

For this film, we created a canvas that we could shoot on that would make the film consistent even though we are shooting in different locations from Spain to Bulgaria. This was the biggest production design I’ve ever been a part of. It normally doesn’t make sense to build to this extent, but the amount of detail we put into everything – from the car hood ornament to the plumbers wrench - it was all hand created for the film.

We repainted all the buildings, the whole way the basement was purpose build with an aesthetic that’s hard to find in any location. It feels like you can press pause in every second of the film and see the amount of detail. The boiler was created especially, I think you can really feel that. Our production designer really tied it all together.