Day is Done
Movie | |
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Original title | Day is Done |
Country of production | Switzerland |
original language | German and Swiss German |
Publishing year | 2011 |
Age rating | JMK 6 |
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Director | Thomas Imbach |
production |
Thomas Imbach Andrea Štaka |
camera | Thomas Imbach |
cut | Gion-Reto Killias Tom La Belle |
Day Is Done is a film in the form of a fictional autobiography by the Swiss director Thomas Imbach . The film premiered in February 2011 at the Berlinale in the Forum section. Day Is Done combines answering machine messages with views from the studio window from 15 years to a fictional life story of the character "T.", which is created from the biographical material of the director Thomas Imbach.
Day Is Done was part of the program of various international film festivals, such as the Planete + Doc Film Warsaw in May 2011, the Jerusalem Film Festival in July 2011, the Melbourne International Film Festival, the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and the Chicago International Film Festival in October 2011. He won the Zurich Film Prize 2011 and the Swiss Film Award “Quartz” for the best film music as well as an “Honorable Mention” from the “Millennium Award Jury” of the Planete + Doc Festival.
action
T., the man behind the camera, looks for his picture out of the studio window, whatever the weather, day and night. The trains rush by below. Various voices can be heard on his answering machine: the mother of his son leaves urgent messages, someone congratulates the man on his birthday, his parents talk about the beautiful weather during the holidays. A story about T. and his life emerges from the fragments of the news: his father dies, his child is born, his young family falls apart. The years go by. More and more, the urban landscape in front of T's camera becomes the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.
background
With a 35mm camera, director Thomas Imbach filmed from the window of his studio in Zurich from the mid-1990s. It documents the changes in this view over many years and is dedicated to the various weather moods. At the same time he has been collecting the messages on his answering machine over the years. The extinct medium of the answering machine tapes tells stories and reproduces important stages in T.'s life. In the interplay of the biographical selected material, a fictional figure of Thomas Imbach was created, whose soul landscape was given a universal character.
Reviews
“Day Is Done is a poetic but also ironic-humorous study by the selfish artist who tries to play an indifferent god, but then turns out to be all too human. (...) Day Is Done shows pictures of gorgeous yet unconventional beauty. "
“In Day Is Done, Thomas Imbach looks out of his window - and sees the world. For almost two hours the film developed a suggestive pull of great power. "
"Thomas Imbach has achieved great things with Day Is Done, his personal approach constantly plays with closeness and distance, the banalities of everyday life gradually result in an overall picture 'Thomas - a great montage."
“Thomas Imbach, 'movie designer' of urban and unconventional beauty, hypnotized the cultivated and discerning viewers of this year's Berlinale with his film Day Is Done. An avant-garde film whose pleasure lies in discovering the deeper meaning that lies in the audio-visual banality of everyday life. "
“Thomas Imbach's Day is Done not only asks his questions, he also answers them in a large format, brilliantly, convincingly, humorous, quietly, foggy and above all: as a film. It's an autobiographical film, it's a documentary about Zurich, it's a study of the Swiss weather, it's a declaration of love to the answering machine, it's ... just wonderful. "
Web links
- Day Is Done in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Day Is Done . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Lee Marshall, Day Is Done In: Screen Daily
- ↑ Patrick Wildermann, Something is growing. In: Der Tagesspiegel
- ^ Christian Alt, Berlinale 2011 Forum: Day is Done
- ↑ Kult Magazine, April 2011
- ↑ www.filmundkritik.de