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| "The word secret has an erotic edge, as if in hiding anything, a story, a weapon, a piece of candy still wet from the mouth, clinging to the flannel lining of a pocket, one moves closer to a sequestered sexual body at the core of being." ––A Chorus Of Stones, Susan Griffin |
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| REMOTE INTIMACY | ||
| ENGLISH VERSION | ||
| Length: | 14'30" | |
| Year of production: | 2007/2008 | |
| Format: | BetaSp / MiniDV, Pal or NTSC | |
| Voice-over: | Mona Dehghan, Setsu Tamura-Schedelbauer | |
| Language: | English and Japanese | |
| Subtitles: | English | |
| Selected Music by: | Violet | |
| Synopsis: | Stream of consciousness with fictitious and found stories and a personal reference. | |
| Directors Statement: |
Remote Intimacy is a found-footage montage which combines many types of archival documentary footage (including home movies, educational films, and newsreels), with a seemingly personal narrative, blending various individual recollections with literary texts. Beginning with an account of a recurring dream, the film is a poetic amplification of Memory, and with its associative narrative structure I hope to open up a space for reflection |
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–––From found footage and text fragments, Sylvia Schedelbauer puts together a diving expedition into the subconscious in her film “Ferne Intimität” (Remote Intimacy). Individual and collective traumas of suffering and loss conjoin in a narrative that irresistibly pulls us in, one that can be read as a metaphor for the catastrophes of the past century. Rather than drawing on well-known media imagery, (...) the artist makes her own discoveries of moments of high visual poetry, to which she adds a sensitive and insightful soundtrack. (Jury statement, BILD-KUNST Award, KunstFilmBiennale 2007) –––A montage of impressive, metaphorically charged black and white archival footage from the 1920s to the 1970s – of fishing boats, marine ships, sea birds, forest workers and playing kids––are combined with text fragments to form an associative stream of consciousness, that revolves around the connection between the collective and individual, war and peace, family and autobiography. In Remote Intimacy, Schedelbauer creates a dialogue between fictitious and found stories, “Found Footage”, as well as personal texts and other authors' texts. She continues her engagement with the repercussions of World War II on her Japanese mother and her German father, that was the basis of her film Memories. (program notes, 3Sat) 
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Screenings: |
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| 2011 Farewell to a Pilot: Thomas Carnacki and Sylvia Schedelbauer. ATA, San Francisco, USA | ||
| 2010 Kong. Screening programmed by Clara Bausch, Schule 21, Bremen, Germany | ||
| 2010 Constructing Diaries, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany | ||
| 2010 Artist lecture: Images of Mixed Culture, University Arts Berlin | ||
| 2010 Verwertung Interdisciplinary Arts Festival, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2010 Stan Brakhage Symposium, Boulder, USA | ||
| 2009 artist's talk at Image Movement, Berlin | ||
| 2009 Thursday Films. Academy of Film & Multimedia Marubi - Tirana, Albania | ||
| 2009 Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg, Germany | ||
| 2009 San Joaquin International Film Festival, USA | ||
| 2009 Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque, USA | ||
| 2009 Kunstfilmbiennale Tour: Centre Pompidou, Paris, France | ||
| 2009 Kunstfilmbiennale Tour: Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid | ||
| 2009 Kunstfilmbiennale Tour: KunstWerke Berlin | ||
| 2008 Flaherty NYC, Anthology Film Archives, New York | ||
| 2008 International Film Festival Amsterdam , Netherlands | ||
| 2008 Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin | ||
| 2008 London Film Festival, UK | ||
| 2008 Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA | ||
| 2008 Cinema Oblò, Lausanne, Switzerland | ||
| 2008 Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate College, New York | ||
| 2008 Arsenal Sun Screens, Berlin, Germany | ||
| 2008 Naresuan Experimental Film Festival, Phitsanulok, Thailand | ||
| 2008 Signes du Nuit, Paris, France | ||
| 2008 Other Cinema, New Experimental Works , San Francisco, USA | ||
| 2008 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, USA | ||
| 2008 Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA | ||
| 2008 San Francisco Cinematheque: The Dream Reveals The Waking Day, USA | ||
| 2008 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Thailand | ||
| 2008 Ankara International Film Festival, Turkey | ||
| 2007 Shadow Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
| 2007 Kunstfilmbiennale Köln, Germany | ||
| 2007 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany | ||
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Awards |
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| 2008 third prize at Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, USA | ||
| 2007 KunstFilmBiennale, Bild-Kunst Promotional Award | ||
| Other | Ferne Intimität streaming at the online videotheque of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen | |
| Ferne Intimität on Online Film | ||
| Distribution: Kurzfilmtage | ||
| 2007 Televisionbroadcast on 3Sat | ||
| German Short Films 2008, AG Deutscher Kurzfilm | ||