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Sunday, December 14, 2014 - 16:30
Written by:
Helena Wittmann
Cast:
Barbara Nüsse, Peter Maertens
Cinematography:
Helena Wittmann, Jakob Gerresheim
Editing:
Helena Wittmann
Sound:
Chinook Schneider, Nika Breithaupt
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Helena Wittmann’s multiple award-winning film THE WILD introduces us to the ideal, peaceful picture of long-lived domesticity. In a sun-filled home, a husband waters the plants while the wife prepares their meal. Yet behind the veneer of their quiet existence, the camera glides slowly through empty rooms, revealing projections of wildlife taking over their home, their sounds striking off against the solitude of old age. THE WILD’s juxtaposition of homely tranquillity with primal savagery invites the viewer to look beyond surface symbolism, coming face-to-face with the primal nature of our domesticized humanity. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
HELENA WITTMANN is a filmmaker and visual artist born in Neuss, Germany. After her studies of Theatre, Media and Spanish, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg from 2007-2014. Her experimental short films were shown internationally at film festivals as well as in the context of fine arts. Following a collective idea of filmmaking she is involved in different projects, where she is mainly working as cinematographer. HELENA WITTMANN is based in Hamburg, Germany. Her filmography includes: 21,3°C (2014), KREISEN CIRCLING (2010), MIMIKRY MIMIKRY (2008), HEUTE WAR DIE LUFT TODAY THE AIR WAS (2008), ALL IS QUIET (2004).
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Contact:
wittmann.helena[at]gmail[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Oberhausen International Short Film Festival 2013
- Ann Arbor Film Festival 2014
- Special Jury Mention - Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, 2013
- Main Prize Experiment - Flensburger Short Film Festival 2013
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück 2013
- Festival du Nouveau Cinéma Montréal 2014
- New Directors/New Films (MoMA and Lincoln Center) 2014
- Images Festival, Toronto 2014
- New Horizon Film Festival, Poland, 2014
Director's statement:
Besides the theme of unexpected complexity of individual life paths, THE WILD particularly points out the possibility of cinematic space in form of a third space. The construction is based on the merging of two spaces that are seemingly in contrast to each other. The first space is the specific living space of a retired couple. The second space is embodied in film recordings by the man, which were shot on Super 8 between the sixties and nineties during numerous travels to Africa and Asia. The pictures show animals, which over the course of the film are projected into the living space. The specific of this construction is that no frontiers but a verge is formed between the spaces mentioned above. Therefore in the moment of the third space - as it is limited in time - a new cinematic reality is formed. (Helena Wittmann)
Besides the theme of unexpected complexity of individual life paths, THE WILD particularly points out the possibility of cinematic space in form of a third space. The construction is based on the merging of two spaces that are seemingly in contrast to each other. The first space is the specific living space of a retired couple. The second space is embodied in film recordings by the man, which were shot on Super 8 between the sixties and nineties during numerous travels to Africa and Asia. The pictures show animals, which over the course of the film are projected into the living space. The specific of this construction is that no frontiers but a verge is formed between the spaces mentioned above. Therefore in the moment of the third space - as it is limited in time - a new cinematic reality is formed. (Helena Wittmann)