©wtp international GmbH
Independent Feature Film | 2007 | Comedy, Drama | Germany
Main data
| Director | Roland Reber |
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| Written by | Roland Reber, Mira Gittner |
| Production | wtp international GmbH |
| Distributor | wtp international GmbH |
Shooting data
| Number of shooting days | 24 |
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| Locations | Landsberg am Lech Kaufbeuren, Augsburg, München |
| Filming regions | Germany - Bavaria |
Project data
| Length of movie | 100 min |
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| Aspect ratio | Widescreen USA (1 : 1,85) |
| Distribution format | 35mm |
| Sound format | Stereo |
Brief synopsis
MY DREAM or LONELINESS IS NEVER ALONE is a visually powerful excursion into the abysses of the soul, is a revue-like examination of the forces of the conscious and unconscious and the loneliness of its protagonists lost in life, staged as a colorful potpourri of our media landscape. From silent movies to talk shows, from computer games to educational television - with a critical wink, Roland Reber guides MANN not only through his thoughts, but also the viewer through our mass media entertainment culture.
The MAN (Wolfgang Seidenberg) flees from the eternal repetitions of his life, from the expectations placed on him, from being bound by the constraints of others and himself. On a disused factory site he meets GODOT (Mira Gittner), who is looking for signs in the discarded things of life in the waste of the city. Together with GODOT, the MAN embarks on a journey through the night, the garbage of life and the garbage in his head.
Broken out of his routinely monotonous everyday life, the MAN gives himself over to his thoughts, turns his innermost to the outside and lets his life pass in review during this night, zaps through his life in partly oppressively real, partly surreal images full of comedy as through the programs of our media landscape - the show of life.
Director's comment:
"After all, almost every topic is now flattened in the media: you get married on TV, you cook, you look for a partner, you rebuild your house, you save animals - everything becomes a multimedia show, everything is staged. The current media situation is only a mirror of our own life, which everyone stages for himself, but just not according to his needs, but according to what is most effective for the viewer or the "audience rating". I don't think about a meaning until the film is shown in the cinema and I discuss it with the audience. If I had a preconceived interpretation from the start, that would mean depriving the film and ultimately the viewer of the vision of their own thoughts. I see my kind of cinema as an adventure of one's own mind that provokes thought." (Roland Reber)
The MAN (Wolfgang Seidenberg) flees from the eternal repetitions of his life, from the expectations placed on him, from being bound by the constraints of others and himself. On a disused factory site he meets GODOT (Mira Gittner), who is looking for signs in the discarded things of life in the waste of the city. Together with GODOT, the MAN embarks on a journey through the night, the garbage of life and the garbage in his head.
Broken out of his routinely monotonous everyday life, the MAN gives himself over to his thoughts, turns his innermost to the outside and lets his life pass in review during this night, zaps through his life in partly oppressively real, partly surreal images full of comedy as through the programs of our media landscape - the show of life.
Director's comment:
"After all, almost every topic is now flattened in the media: you get married on TV, you cook, you look for a partner, you rebuild your house, you save animals - everything becomes a multimedia show, everything is staged. The current media situation is only a mirror of our own life, which everyone stages for himself, but just not according to his needs, but according to what is most effective for the viewer or the "audience rating". I don't think about a meaning until the film is shown in the cinema and I discuss it with the audience. If I had a preconceived interpretation from the start, that would mean depriving the film and ultimately the viewer of the vision of their own thoughts. I see my kind of cinema as an adventure of one's own mind that provokes thought." (Roland Reber)