English title: Year: 2020 Length: 01:20:00 Categories: Film / TV / Video, feature film
Synopsis: For the three workers of the company “Styx“ it is everyday business: living in the company van and driving overland to get from one place and time of death to the next – terminating people, packaging them and sending them off. They live a monotone life doing their daily chores for a society that developed a pain-free system for people’s passings. Suddenly, the three find themselves confronted with their own termination and start to question and bend the rules of their world. In a world where death has become a private service company, three workers rebel against their own mortality. For the three workers of the company “Styx“ it is everyday business: living in the company van and driving overland to get from one place and time of death to the next – terminating people, packaging them and sending them off. They live a monotone life doing their daily chores for a society that developed a painfree system for people’s passings. Suddenly, the three find themselves confronted with their own termination and start to question and bend the rules of their world.
Collaboration:
Regie: Immanuel Esser Buch: Immanuel Esser, Matthias Sahli, Angelo Wemmje Bildgestaltung: Philipp Künzli Szenenbild: Renate Mihatsch Schauspiel: Franziska Machens, Holger Daemgen, Johannes Kühn, Isabelle Hoepfner Casting: Victor Brim Produktionsleitung: Jakob Deutsch Kostümbild: Doris Bartelt Sounddesign: Tonstudio Krauthausen Produktion: Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Philipp Künzli, Immanuel Esser und Renate Mihatsch Förderung: Nordmedia
Supervision:
Prof. Sebastian Richter, Prof. Frank Döhmann, Prof. Dr. Peter Bexte, Prof. Didi Danquart, Carina Neubohn
Authors:
Renate Mihatsch
Philipp Künzli
Immanuel Esser
A production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
Berlinale Empfang der Filmhochschulen 2020 (25.02.2020) (feature film, 2020, 01:20:00) by Renate Mihatsch by Philipp Künzli by Immanuel Esser Lychen 92 (feature film, 2020, 00:30:00) by Florian Brückner by Constanze Klaue ONIRONAUTA (documentary, 2019, 00:20:55) by VALMA by Joel Jaffe
20.01.2020 - 26.01.2020
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken 2020 (20.01.2020 - 26.01.2020) Umbra (experimental film, 2019, 00:20:00) by Johannes Krell (animation film, 2019, 00:08:00) by Yana Ugrekhelidze to the four winds (feature film, 2019, 00:44:00) by Marcela Vanegas Cardenas (feature film, 2020, 01:20:00) by Renate Mihatsch by Philipp Künzli by Immanuel Esser Lychen 92 (feature film, 2020, 00:30:00) by Florian Brückner by Constanze Klaue Passion Plays (documentary, 2019, 01:16:22) by Hannah Platzer by Luka Lara Steffen
04.11.2020 - 08.11.2020
Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York 2020 (04.11.2020 - 08.11.2020) Sweeter than Life (feature film, 2019, 00:03:30) by Caro Schwarz (feature film, 2020, 01:20:00) by Renate Mihatsch by Philipp Künzli by Immanuel Esser