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Supervision:
Prof. Julia Scher
Prof. Ute Hörner
Mi You
Prof. Matthias Müller
Project type: Diplom
A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
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Archiv Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
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Deutsche Körper

Authors:
  • Linda Franke
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Year: 2016
Length: 00:33:00
Categories: Film / TV / Video, Video Art, video performance, feature film
Project type: Diplom
Three generations of a german family suffer states of displacement for different reasons. Political systems and value systems have changed around them, lovers have left and even the family structure doesn't seem to promise any kind of reference point. Which leaves them with their own body as a refuge. The invention of little routines with their own bodies keeps them occupied, but the urge to communicate and connect pushes them again and again to interact. But it becomes clear that the failure of this interaction is one of the reasons for their state. Every interaction lacks compliance or is received as an insult or a provocation by the opponent. The film is set in an abandoned brothel in a park in Cologne and the decayed architecture is staged to mirror the inner condition of the protagonists. Most dialogues are transcripts of real dialogue and are recited by the performers in an artificial, detatched manner to underline their alienation from language and distrust in the meaning of words in general. ""Deutsche Körper"" means to depict a battle between taught efficiency, control and collective memories with a personal quest for freedom, pleasure and independency. Starting off with a suicide the film asks questions like: How much is a or my life worth? Who determines the value of a body or my body in the context of a German culture that is obsessed with the rationalization of feelings, hygiene and sport and traumatized with the knowledge of what humans are capable of.
Collaboration:
Regie, Buch und Schnitt: Linda Franke
Kamera: Renate Boden
Schauspiel: Janina Warnk, Carolin Stähler, Ruth Plewe, Patrick Buhr, Frank Schneider, Wolfgang Günther
Ton und Musik: Jonathan Kastl
Soundtrack: Linda Franke, Jonathan Kastl
Maske: Achim Röhler
Kameraassistenz: Stefan Ramirez-Perez
Oberbeleuchterin: Stephanie Englert
Tonmischung: Gerald Schauder
Farbkorrektur: Fabiana Cardalda
Produktion: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Supervision:
Prof. Julia Scher, Prof. Ute Hörner, Mi You, Prof. Matthias Müller
Authors:
  • Linda Franke
A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Source:
Archiv Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Copyright: KHM / Autoren
Kontakt: archiv@khm.de
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