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"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 |
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| False FRIENDs | ||
German title: |
FALSCHE FREUNDE |
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| 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. |
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"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) |
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| "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: |
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| 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 | ||
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| 2007 Broadcast on Transfera, Canal Autor, Madrid | ||
| 2007 Broadcast on ATV, San Francisco | ||
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| False Friends is included on the 2007 Aurora Film Festival DVD | ||
| False Friends is included on the 2007 ATA DVD | ||