After Effect
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | After Effect |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without age restriction |
| Rod | |
| Director | Stephan Geene |
| script | Stephan Geene |
| production |
Esther Buss Julia Lee |
| camera | Volker saddle |
| cut | Bettina Blickwede |
| occupation | |
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After Effect is a German avant-garde film by Stephan Geene from 2007.
action
The Berlin advertising agency CC owned by owner Carl Celler specializes in logos and advertising messages with animals. The photographer Rena Yazka from Barcelona is hired for an advertising strategy for an insurance company.
Rena knows what she wants and therefore does not fit at all into the world of the meaningless, far too important and self-celebrating advertising world. Kai, the brother of the employee Karsten Starel, is hired as a model from the street for advertising shots. He too does not know what to do with the advertising industry and its confused ideas of advertising with people as animals. Rena and Kai get closer and start an affair. Otherwise, the days in the agency are dominated by glorified advertising experts sitting around. There is a lot of talk, but without moving anything substantial.
When Rena announces that she has done her job and turns her back on Berlin, Kai lets himself be carried away into a crazy act. He accompanies the homosexual advertising consultant Flor Walter home, locks him in the bedroom and steals his car. After meeting Rena at the agency, the police have already arrived.
criticism
"" After Effect "turned out to be a completely strange and very beautiful film. A film that enchants, irritates and amuses, a film whose plot synopsis says nothing about it, because it is not about a story, but about the atmospherically dense depiction of the tricky work and private life contexts of people today. Whether you are doing art or commerce, ad busting or brand development, profit or nonprofit, go on or take a break, sex or no sex - it doesn't seem to matter in this experimental arrangement staged as if floating in cotton wool. "
“Experimental feature film whose puzzle-like structure cannot compensate for the immature script. No ironic exposure of a trend scene, just a vain self-reflection that neither tells a story nor explores the characters. "
“The movie is about boring, blasé, humorless advertisers, and all the time Timoteo is exciting, natural, funny. How does she do it In the role of the photographer Rena Yazka, she exudes energy, like a cat before the jump. Her mocking look suggests that she is up to something. Whatever it is, it's not in the script. She can't save the film, but she manages to make you forget its weaknesses. What prompts an actress who worked with Dominik Graf and Matthias Glasner to take part in this production? Maybe your decision has to do with the personality of Stephan Geene, a co-founder of the Kreuzberg b_books store. The man is familiar with political theory and reflections on art; he can certainly talk about films in a stimulating way. But he can't do any. "
Web links
- Aftereffect in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- After Effect in the online film database
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ A totally strange film taz.de
- ^ After Effect. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ After Effect tagesspiegel.de