Experimental Film | 2021 | Germany
Main data
| Director | Josephine 'Joey' Arand |
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| Written by | Josephine 'Joey' Arand |
| Production | Joey Arand Produktion [de] |
Project data
| Length of movie | 11' |
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Brief synopsis
FBW press release
An elderly person walks through her apartment. A face mask hangs on the coat rack. A lonely life. We accompany the single person in her everyday life. Hear voices. See people. Suddenly rooms are no longer where they used to be. Faces are no longer recognizable in photos and chaos reigns in the living room where there used to be order. What is reality, what is memory, what is imagination? The short experimental film 21:71 UHR by filmmaker Joey Arand, who teaches at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, succeeds in translating the end of a life into images: It is a film about dementia in times of Corona. And a film about loneliness. A film about issues that currently affect thousands of people - but which are not tangible for at least as many people. The images therefore seem just as alien to the viewer as they probably are to the protagonist. What does dementia and loneliness really feel like? The film makes this tangible. In a fascinating and frightening way at the same time. Excellent camera work and congenial editing create the impression of a perfect "one-shot" in 11 minutes. A masterpiece of experimental film art at the pulse of our time.
An elderly person walks through her apartment. A face mask hangs on the coat rack. A lonely life. We accompany the single person in her everyday life. Hear voices. See people. Suddenly rooms are no longer where they used to be. Faces are no longer recognizable in photos and chaos reigns in the living room where there used to be order. What is reality, what is memory, what is imagination? The short experimental film 21:71 UHR by filmmaker Joey Arand, who teaches at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, succeeds in translating the end of a life into images: It is a film about dementia in times of Corona. And a film about loneliness. A film about issues that currently affect thousands of people - but which are not tangible for at least as many people. The images therefore seem just as alien to the viewer as they probably are to the protagonist. What does dementia and loneliness really feel like? The film makes this tangible. In a fascinating and frightening way at the same time. Excellent camera work and congenial editing create the impression of a perfect "one-shot" in 11 minutes. A masterpiece of experimental film art at the pulse of our time.