The Eylandt Research
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Eylandt Research |
| Country of production | Germany , Spain |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Doc Miguel |
| script | Doc Miguel |
| production | Michael W. Driesch |
| music | Eric Babak |
| camera | Tanja Haring |
| cut | Guillermo Campo |
| occupation | |
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The Eylandt Recherche is a feature film by the German director Michael W. Driesch (also called "Doc Miguel") from 2008. The world premiere was on October 30, 2008 at the Biberach Film Festival , where the production was represented in the competition. The German theatrical release was on November 6, 2008.
action
On June 5, 2007, the New York attorney William Singer received some personal items from the estate of his recently deceased sister. There he also found three letters that initially made him doubt the sanity of his German relatives Josefine Eylandt, describing how she and her family wanted to have hidden people in her cellar for decades. However, the first research quickly leads to the suspicion that there is a real story hidden behind the letters. Singer hires a German private investigator to get to the bottom of the matter. Together with the Duisburg local journalist Karsten Vüllings, he researches the background to Josefine Eylandt's writings and collects evidence that suggests that the Eylandt family has hosted three guests from another world for many decades .
background
With the film, Driesch tries to tell and establish a Duisburg legend and, with the help of a semi-fictional mockumentary and clear swipes at the reality formats on television, brings a rarely used genre to the cinema. More than a year before the film started, the production was already using forums, blogs and newsletters to draw attention to the project and to support the legend surrounding Josefine Eylandt's letters. This also includes a book, The Letters of Josefine Eylandt , which Driesch himself published and which is intended to serve as part of the creation of legends. These measures earned the production the reputation of being a German copy of the Blair Witch Project .
Soundtrack
The pseudo-documentary character of the film was also reinforced by the soundtrack. The score, composed and lavishly recorded by Eric Babak and recorded by the Moscow Russian State Cinema Orchestra, breaks up the documentary in many places and is a strong counterpoint to the classic narrative style, and also supports the film's attempt to mislead the audience.
Reviews
The film polarized audiences and critics before, but at the latest since its appearance.
“... the line between reality, acting talent and simulated reality was fluid. The film music of bombastic theatricality. A masterpiece that will probably take its place in its own category. "
“Also… The Eylandt Research would like to be believed, and it too fails because of this effort. It also fails on pretty much everything else ... "
"As I said, this is presented so amazingly 'true' with seemingly real documents, deadly serious interviews, the catchy explanation of an astronomer about millions of unknown solar systems, planets and possible forms of existence, re-enacted scenes, mysteriously coincidental occurrences, hard-won research results and surprising images, that a mixture of tension, doubt, believability, entertainment, nonsense and being led by the nose has arisen. "
Web links
- The Eylandt research in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- WDR talk during the Duisburg premiere on November 4, 2008 on YouTube
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Sigrid Primas: The Eylandt Research. In: Zelluloid.de. Archived from the original on October 1, 2015 ; accessed on August 24, 2018 .
- ^ Björn Lahrmann: Die Eylandt Recherche (Germany 2008). In: manifest das filmmagazin. September 29, 2008. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Thomas Engel: Eylandt Research, The. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved August 24, 2018 .