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<<back     "He has poor ability to organize his thinking, he seems unable to scan or summarize his thought, becoming involved and sometimes lost in detail, and some of his thinking reflects a 'magical' quality, a disregard of reality." --In Cold Blood, Truman Capote                                                         False FRIENDs German title: FALSCHE FREUNDE   Length: 4'50"   Year of production: 2007   Format: BetaSp / MiniDV, Pal or NTSC   Language: No language         Synopsis: A montage of mid-century found footage: mysterious strands are obsessively braided to create a poetic reflection about an anxious interplay of memory and projection.         "With the simple means of old black-and-white archive material and rather familiar, albeit slightly alienated horror soundtrack, the director manages to draw the viewer into the nightmarish atmosphere of the images by the unsettling rhythm of the cuts. Falsche Freunde takes place in the undefined space between video art and feature film narration. The oppressive tension never abates, even though the mysteriousness (...) of the dark - in both senses of the word - scenes do not look set to be deciphered." (Jury statement, German Film Critics' Award: Best Experimental Film 2008)   "False Friends by Sylvia Schedelbauer is a beautiful and intriguing film. Circling around a few clips, such as an institution for children, landscapes at night with a child running, a man with a flashlight, she is creating a dense narrative without words. Repetitive use of the pictures could give a feeling of somebody returning to the same memories over and over again. We see them in similar form again and again, rarely are new images introduced. An enigmatic muteness" Kinotektur: Architetonics, Cinematics & Mnemonics. Screenings:   2008 Perfect Timing Emaf-tour 2008 Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival 2008 L'Alternativa. Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona 2008 Canariasmediafest, Gran Canaria, Spain 2008 Views from the Avant-Garde, New York Film Festival, USA 2008 Oslo Screen Festival 2008 Asian Pacific American Film Festival, Washington DC, USA 2008 Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, Canada 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate College, New York 2008 Prison House of Technology, Uniondocs, Brooklyn, USA 2008 Imaginaria Film Festival, Conversano, Italy 2008 Hamburg Short Film Festival, Germany 2008 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival , USA 2008 European Media Art Festival Osnabrueck, Germany 2008 Signes du Nuit at Busho Festival, Budapest, Hungary 2008 Signes du Nuit at Collectiv Jeune Cinama, Paris, France 2008 Umsjónaraðili Menningarmiðstöð Hornafjarðar, Iceland 2008 Vilnius Film Shorts, Lithuania 2008 ATA Film Festival Tour: Cine Fantom, Moscow, Russia 2008 ATA Film Festival Tour: Echo Park Film Center, L.A., USA 2008 Aurora Festival Tour *    * Filmski programi, Zagreb, Croatia  * Monday Screening, London, UK  * European Ani-Festival Seoul, Korea  * Animator Festival, Poznan, Poland  * Lighthouse, Brighton, UK  * Black Box, Belfast (Belfast Film Festival), UK  * Pushkin Cinema, Cheliabinsk, Russia  * Avant Music Festival, Moscow, Russia  * Mir Cinema, Kazan, Russia  * Dom Kino, Rostov, Russia  * Kino Rodina, St. Petersburg, Russia 2008 Dresdner Schmalfilmtage , Germany 2007 Tirana Film Festival, Albania 2007 Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany 2007 Iowa City Experimental Film Fest, USA 2007 Aurora Film Festival, Norwich, UK , 2007 ATA Film and Video Festival , San Francisco, USA 2007 Other Cinema, New Experimental Works , San Francisco, USA     Awards 2008 German Film Critics' Award: Best Experimental Film 2008 Oslo Screen Festival, honorable mention   Other   2007 Broadcast on Transfera, Canal Autor, Madrid 2007 Broadcast on ATV, San Francisco         False Friends is included on the 2007 Aurora Film Festival DVD False Friends is included on the 2007 ATA DVD     EditRegion3