Everything wants change
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| original title | Everything wants change |
| production country | Germany , Netherlands |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 2021 |
| length | 93 minutes |
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| directing | Marten Persiel |
| script | Marten Persiel, Aisha Prigann |
| production |
Catherine Bergfeld , Martin Heisler |
| music | Gary Marlowe |
| camera | Felix Leiberg |
| cut |
Maxine Goedicke , Bobby Good |
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Everything will Change is a drama film directed by Marten Persiel which premiered at the Zurich Film Festival in September 2021 and premiered in Germany in January 2022 as the opening film at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival .
plot
Cherry, Ben and Fini live together in one of the many mobile homes in their city. In the year 2054, social interaction will take place almost exclusively via computers. So, like all other humans, they use this technology as a matter of course, and Ben has even learned to trick the interfaces attached to their eyes.
While shopping for an old vinyl record, Ben and Cherry find a photo of a giraffe in the sleeve. Since they have no idea what kind of animal it is because animals are almost extinct during this period, the shopkeeper gives them a box of old video tapes. Ben looks at the footage with interest, which is unusual given that people have given up trusting photographs and truth has become a deceptive term in this time. Ben is amazed that he has never heard of any of the animals shown in the videos, when there are certainly people who have seen them. After convincing Fini of the authenticity of the footage, the two get into an old Mercedes for a road trip, following a map from Ben's vision.
You drive past desolate landscapes without nature and finally find the institute you are looking for called "Arche", which has an underground bunker system in which you keep many preparations in addition to the knowledge about all the animals that once lived on earth. They seem to have been expected there already. Scientists tell them about a once-abundant biodiversity that existed on Earth before climate change. They learn that the animals that were of no use to mankind went extinct first. Ben and Fini can do their own research on an old computer and learn how the extinction of animal species became unstoppable and was largely man-made. The Ark also has a cinema where you can hear about the curiosities and beauty of the animal kingdom, what wonders there were and how "sex" in animals and plants led to their spread.
They leave the institute and during a break in the car they discover a bee, which they look at with fascination and then release back into “nature”.
production
film staff
Marten Persiel directed it and co- wrote the screenplay with Aisha Prigann . This is the Berlin-born director's second feature film, following the 2012 documentary This Ain't California . According to Persiel, he got his inspiration for the film during a walk in Portugal, where he lives today. In this case, in an area where hundreds of frogs croak in unison at this time of year, he could only hear one doing so. Intensive farming had deprived the nearby river of all water and the frogs were therefore unable to reproduce. Future generations of people would not know what they were missing because they would not have experienced it in the first place. The trio of characters in the film also has little idea of earlier biodiversity and how diverse the animal world was just 30 years ago. The film deals with the "shifting baseline" syndrome, a concept that assumes that people have no real idea of how much nature has been damaged by their actions because this "baseline" changes with each generation and their perception is limited to one's own lifetime and experience.
Manufacturing companies and grants
The film was co-produced by Flare Film with Dutch Windmill Film, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and with KRO-NCRV in cooperation with Arte .
The film received production funding of EUR 400,000 from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media , around EUR 220,000 from the German Film Fund , a similar amount from the Film Fund, EUR 80,000 from the Film and Media Foundation NRW and from Medienboard Berlin -Brandenburg in the amount of 120,000 euros. Further funds came from Nordmedia (60,000 euros) and from the Wim Wenders grant (30,000 euros).
filming and publication
Filming took place between June and December 2019 in North Rhine-Westphalia and Berlin and in the Netherlands, Spain, Canada and the USA. The working title was The Way We Were . Felix Leiberg acted as cameraman . Most of the recordings were made in the classic way and did not require any visual effects. The colorization effect of an infrared camera used rendered the footage of all green in nature a reddish hue, giving the earth an apocalyptic look, Variety 's Tim Dams said .
The world premiere took place on September 24, 2021 as part of the Zurich Film Festival . On January 16, 2022, Everything Will Change opened the 43rd Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival as a German premiere .
awards
Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2022
- Nomination in the feature film competition
Zurich Film Festival 2021
- Nomination for the Golden Eye in the Focus Germany, Austria and Switzerland competition ( Marten Persiel )
- Nomination for the Science Film Award (Marten Persiel)
web links
- Everything Will Change at the Internet Movie Database
- Everything wants change at crew united
- Everything will Change – Clip of the Zurich Film Festival on YouTube (Video)
itemizations
- ↑ a b c Everything will Change. In: zff.com. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ↑ a b Tim Dams: Director Marten Persiel on Wildlife Extinction Movie 'Everything Will Change'. In: Variety, October 3, 2021.
- ↑ Everything wants change. In: flare-film.com. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ↑ FFA awards 3.2 million euros for new film projects and screenplays. In: ffa.de, March 18, 2019.
- ↑ Film- und Medienstiftung NRW supports 15 projects with around 2.2 million euros. In: filmstiftung.de, December 7, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.medienboard.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Anhaenge_PM/Foerdersprechen_Film_Januar_2019.pdf
- ↑ nordmedia award decisions from November 21, 2018. In: nordmedia.de, November 21, 20218.
- ↑ Prize winners 2017. In: wimwendersstiftung.de. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ↑ Jochen Müller: Photo of the day: "The Way We Were" (AT) in action. In: Spotlight: Film, June 27, 2019.
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/farbfilmverleih/posts/viele-gr%C3%BC%C3%9Fe-vonm-set-von-the-way-we-were-at-dem-neuen-film-von -marten-persiel-fil/2308104869280415/
- ↑ Everything wants change. In: ffmop.de. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
- ↑ Feature film competition. In: ffmop.de. Retrieved December 18, 2021.