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Saturday, December 13, 2014 - 20:30
Written by:
Daniel Moshel
Cast:
August Schram
Cinematography:
Martin Bauer
Editing:
Christine Veith
Sound:
Bernhard Drax
Music:
George Bizet, Philip Preuss
Producer:
August Schram
Production:
Moshelfilm
Isolating himself from the outside world and real human contact, the urban man reinvents his identity in the virtual realm, in the deliciously cheeky METUBE, by Daniel Moshel, a tribute to the countless performers seeking self-expression through the rhizomes of YouTube. Famous opera tenor August Schram plays the balding, meek protagonist whose self-recorded performance of Habanera from Bizet’s Carmen is interrupted by his doting mother. From there, the one-man show unleashes a flurry of genre-and-gender benders, reflecting the Internet’s kaleidoscopic personalities, as well as celebrating our aspiring, inner diva. (Andrei Tănăsescu, BIEFF)
Director:
DANIEL MOCHEL is born 1976 in Offenbach/M, Germany. During his studies he directed his first fictional short film called komA, which successfully screened on several film festivals and on TV. In 2003 he founded his production company Moshel Film, making award-winning sports documentaries, films and advertisements. Login2Life, his first feature length documentary, premiered on the German ZDF broadcast station, and after a successful festival circuit, was sold to multiple TV stations. Three months after the web-release of Metube, the video was viewed more than half a million times, screened on three French TV networks, participated in numerous festivals and screenings and won already three awards.
Website:
Contact:
daniel[at]moshel[dot]com
Festivals, awards:
- Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2014
- Sundance Film Festival 2014
- Tampere Film Festival 2014
- Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2013
- Jury Award - Interfilm Festival Berlin 2013
- Special Mention - QueerLisboa Lesbian & Gay Festival 2013
- Grand Prix: Best Production & Concept - Festival du Film Court Brest 2013
- European Media Art Festival Osnabrück 2014
Curator's comment:
A YouTube anachronism as the overture of a clever opera-remix spectacle. A man is surrounded by the most conservative '70s interior furnishings imaginable. The beige patterned wallpaper is dominated by a portrait of Maria Callas, while a cassette recorder plays Habanera from Bizet's opera Carmen. While streaks move across the static picture of what seems to be a webcam, the protagonist (tenor August Schram) reservedly plays the singer while his mother hands him a glass of milk and a sandwich. Like varying layers of Schram’s personality, camera filters are superimposed over the picture, now in high resolution and in motion: Schram dressed as Carmen, surrounded by men in latex outfits. Schram as a bleached-blond Adonis standing in between young women in cat suits. On the Internet at least, identities and body images are diverse and genuinely fluid. As a result Metube turns into a fetish machine. In a combination of dance club and S&M dungeon, the director, Daniel Moshel, stages a minutely choreographed trip into the subconscious: While Habanera booms in Schram’s magnificent techno remix, genders and realities collide and overlap, and suppressed emotions noisily forge ahead. (Sebastian Höglinger)
A YouTube anachronism as the overture of a clever opera-remix spectacle. A man is surrounded by the most conservative '70s interior furnishings imaginable. The beige patterned wallpaper is dominated by a portrait of Maria Callas, while a cassette recorder plays Habanera from Bizet's opera Carmen. While streaks move across the static picture of what seems to be a webcam, the protagonist (tenor August Schram) reservedly plays the singer while his mother hands him a glass of milk and a sandwich. Like varying layers of Schram’s personality, camera filters are superimposed over the picture, now in high resolution and in motion: Schram dressed as Carmen, surrounded by men in latex outfits. Schram as a bleached-blond Adonis standing in between young women in cat suits. On the Internet at least, identities and body images are diverse and genuinely fluid. As a result Metube turns into a fetish machine. In a combination of dance club and S&M dungeon, the director, Daniel Moshel, stages a minutely choreographed trip into the subconscious: While Habanera booms in Schram’s magnificent techno remix, genders and realities collide and overlap, and suppressed emotions noisily forge ahead. (Sebastian Höglinger)