Elsewhere

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Movie
Original title Elsewhere
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Country of production Austria
original language German , English , Faliasch / Greenlandic , Chantic , Korowai , Kunwinjku , Ladakhi , Naxi , Nisga'a , Ojihimba , Saami , Sardinian , Tamashek etc. a.
Publishing year 2001
length 240 minutes
Rod
Director Nikolaus Geyrhalter
script Silvia Burner,
Michael Kitzberger,
Wolfgang Widerhofer,
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
production Nikolaus Geyrhalter
camera Nikolaus Geyrhalter
cut Wolfgang Widerhofer
Elsewhere shoot in Australia

Elsewhere is a documentary by the Austrian filmmaker, cameraman and producer Nikolaus Geyrhalter . The world premiere took place on November 26, 2001 at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam .

Content and locations

Elsewhere shoot in Micronesia

Nikolaus Geyrhalter documents life “elsewhere” at the beginning of the 21st century. The four-hour film is divided into twelve episodes of 20 minutes each, each episode representing a month of the year 2000. In the same year, the director traveled to twelve different remote places on earth every month and filmed them in his special style (without any comment) Lives of people of the most varied geographical and cultural origins, with different traditions, life plans and climatic conditions.

Period Location
January 2000 Ekeschi, Aïr , Niger Shooting with the Tuareg in the Aïr Mountains in Niger. When fetching water, the speed of time is literally visible here.
February 2000 Karigasniemi , Samiland , Finland Hansa, who tends his reindeer herd on the Sami tundra on a snowmobile, sometimes wants human company.
March 2000 Ombivango, Kaokoland , Namibia Visit to a family in Kaokoland: Two women join forces against their husband, who wants a third wife.
April 2000 Dambol Territory, Irian Jaya , Indonesia The people of Irian Jaya Forest live in tree houses that offer them protection from the dangers of the forest.
May 2000 Siorapaluk , Thule , Greenland The seal hunt is dangerous; to distract themselves from it, the hunters chat about Brigitte Bardot.
June 2000 Manmoyi, Arnhem Land , Australia Young Aborigines must be able to move between two worlds - a traditional and a modern world.
July 2000 Umla, Ladakh , India In summer Tsewang Dolma drives her cows to a kind of alpine pasture at an altitude of over 4000 m - the speed of life is slower there due to the thin air.
August 2000 Kantek ko Jawun, Siberia , Russia Oil is being drilled in the West Siberian tundra and the livelihoods of local families are endangered by pollution.
September 2000 Zhong Shi, Yunnan , China Mosuo households are characterized by the " walking marriage " system - women and their children stay with their original family. In addition, a woman is always the head of the family.
October 2000 Thárros , Sardinia, Italy There are hardly any traditional fishermen left in Sardinia; Luigi Garau and his son are among the last.
November 2000 New Aiyansh , British Columbia, Canada Dennis Nyce was sent to a residential school as a child and completely forgotten his parents' language, Nisga'a . Today he carves totem poles to find his way back to his culture.
December 2000 Falalap, Woleai Atoll , Micronesia American transport planes drop off Red Cross gift packages at Christmas every two years: an island where everyone walks around with bare chests has little use for old T-shirts.

Reviews

Elsewhere caught the attention of the critics because of the length of the film and the film concept. Just the fact that Geyrhalter traveled around the world for a year is impressive. “The title already suggests the openness of the concept: Elsewhere in Elsewhere does not mean the restriction to indigenous peoples, not to a world that can only be determined by its contrast to the western one. It is rather a search for traces of self-sufficient forms of life, beyond, on the edge, sometimes in the middle of a global culture, ”says Dominik Kamalzadeh from Standard . In his opinion, it is "about an impressionistic vision that does not want to elevate the 'foreign' to a spectacle." Rob Nelson of The Village Voice considers Elsewhere to be Geyrhalter's epic : "the shockingly beautiful travelogue Elsewhere (2001), [is] a triumph of cinematic landscape photography and one of two four-hour films in his oeuvre. "(German: the shockingly beautiful travel report Elsewhere (2001) is a triumph of filmic landscape photography and one of two four-hour films in his work.)

For Michael Köhler from the Berliner Zeitung , Geyrhalter does not document in a classic way. Instead, in “Elsewhere” he “follows the movement of documentarism as a gesture. The amazing thing about this purism is that the pictures still retain their power. They tell their slightly hinted stories and we visitors see and listen in amazement from a distance. ”Geyrhalter reduces documentary film to the essentials. The German premiere of the film at the Frankfurt Film Festival also caused a stir: Georg Wasner from the press describes Geyrhalter as a “global sheet of images [...] which documents the passage of the year 2000 in twelve episodes - wherever the millennium does not continue to affect humanity seems to affect. On a monthly basis, Geyrhalter and his team traveled to Niger, Finland, Namibia, Indonesia, Greenland, Australia, India, Russia, China, Italy, Canada and Micronesia; an undertaking that is not only unparalleled in the documentary film sector. "

Awards

  • International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2001: Special Jury Award
  • Diagonale Graz 2002: Prize for Innovative Production Performance (2003)
  • Pärnu International Documentary Film Festival 2002: Ethnographic Award
  • Duisburg Film Week 2002: Audience Award

Web links

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  1. ↑ a b Elsewhere on the Geyrhalterfilm website
  2. ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh: This is how man lives - still. In: The Standard . Retrieved December 2, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Rob Nelson: Doc-Making Off the Map: Nikolaus Geyrhalter at Anthology. January 12, 2010, accessed December 2, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Michael Köhler: Very far away. In: Berliner Zeitung . Retrieved December 2, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Georg Wasner: Into the limitless: From the outer edge of the world . Die Presse : Vienna, January 19, 2002
  6. ↑ Festivals ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Elsewhere.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.elsewhere.at