LOMO - The Language of Many Others

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Movie
Original title LOMO - The Language of Many Others
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Julia Langhof
script Thomas Gerhold , Julia Langhof
production Martin Heisler , Eva Kemme
music Torsten Reibold
camera Michal Grabowski
cut Thomas Krause , Halina Daugird
occupation

LOMO - The Language of Many Others is Julia Langhof's debut feature film . The film premiered at the 35th Munich Film Festival in 2017 its premiere . The regular theatrical release took place on July 12, 2018.

The film tells the story of a young person who publishes his everyday life on the Internet, so that his blog followers participate more and more - also visually - and have an influence on his decisions and his existence. An unusual camera work and experimental elements, v. a. When depicting the influence of the follower community, which is made up of unknown people from the most varied of cultures, the digital possibilities and dangers are depicted very vividly.

action

The 17-year-old Karl lives well off in Berlin with his parents, a successful architect couple, and his twin sister Anna. The young people are about to graduate from school. While Anna already has concrete career plans, the stubborn Karl is indifferent to his future. He meets his teacher, Mr. Finke, who wants to give him another chance to graduate from high school, with arrogance and refusal. He spends a large part of his free time with his blog "The language of many others", in which he u. a. Posts everyday scenes from his family and which meets with response from young people from all over the world. When his parents notice that he is exposing them on his blog without being asked, v. a. his father is angry about it and their relationship becomes more and more cloudy.

Shortly afterwards, a new classmate, Doro, appears, with whom Karl falls in love. She also lives in very privileged circumstances, but is just as bored with her situation as Karl. After a brief affair, she drops him again because she supposedly doesn't want any ties. Karl is deeply hurt and insecure. He publishes an intimate video of himself and Doro, which especially outrags their parents. During a discussion he shows no awareness of wrongdoing. When his father takes his cell phone away from him and throws it into the water, the follower community sends him a new one with completely reconstructed material. Karl continues to communicate on his blog and lets himself be directed more and more by his followers. As Doro's mother, who decides in the Senate on the award of a project that is existentially important for Karl's parents, removes the already secure assignment from them, the followers ensure that their decision is revised by blackmail. Doro and Karl have now reunited. At the prom, however, it comes to a scandal: Karl's father learns that the winning of the tender is based on blackmail and knocks down his son, whom he believes to be responsible, in front of everyone. Doro is horrified and turns away from him. Karl is deeply indignant and vehemently denies his guilt, he runs headless from the hall and ends up outside on an expressway with cars racing by. His followers, who were able to watch the whole scene, comment on what is happening and give him advice. They send him, who seems to be confiding in them with his eyes closed, as he did earlier in the game, with various instructions on a life-threatening course. In the end he sinks down on the median. The course of events remains open.


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production

The film is a production by Flare Film Produktion in co-production with BASIS BERLIN Produktion , Cine Plus and Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb), in cooperation with ARTE . The film was funded by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media (BKM), the Board of Trustees of young German film and the German Federal Film Fund (DFFF). The film was shot from September 1, 2015 to October 10, 2015 in Berlin .

reception

The German film magazine epd Film wrote about the film:

“However, the more densely the plot is knitted, the less the atmospheric staging can support the film. The strong play of Jonas Dassler in the main role now takes a back seat to the loud clatter of the dramaturgy. "

- Patrick Seyboth : epd film

The international trade magazine Variety read:

“Just as impressive as the twisty, engrossing narrative and the committed performances, is the fact that Langhof has hit on a dynamic, layered aesthetic that combines the multiple-sensory input of social media (video, audio, emoji, text) with more traditional scene-making. "

“Just as impressive as the winding, captivating narrative and the convincing acting is the fact that Langhof hits the mark with the dynamic aesthetics of several levels by combining the various sensory impressions of social media (video, audio, emoji, text messages) with a more traditional one The staging merges. "

- Jessica Kiang : Variety

The first European film portal Cineuropa decided about the film:

“Undoubtedly, LOMO - The Language of Others is a very different and refreshing film; most of all, it is also a movie conditioned by the experience of the younger generation, which manifests itself in new modes and new ways of cinematic storytelling. "

“Without a doubt, LOMO - The Language of Others is a very own, refreshing film; even more, it is a film that corresponds to the experience of a younger generation, which manifests itself in its new form and a new cinematic narration. "

- Tina Poglajen : Cineuropa

The critic Rüdiger Suchsland wrote on artechok :

"Lomo is a highly interesting film that comes in the guise of a classic coming-of-age film, but does not shy away from experimental passages and has the courage to make the unexplored terrain of filter bubbles and echo chambers its subject."

- Rüdiger Suchsland : artechok

Awards

In addition, the film was given the rating of particularly valuable by the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wemove digital solutions: Lomo - color film rental. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  2. ^ Flare Film GmbH: Flare Film GmbH. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  3. ↑ BASIS BERLIN FILMPRODUKTION Current. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 16, 2018 ; accessed on September 16, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.basisberlin.de
  4. ^ CINE PLUS - LOMO - The language of many others. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Start of shooting for "LOMO - The language of many others" - Julia Langhof's debut film. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  6. ^ Crew United - The network of the film and television industry. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  7. ↑ epd-film.de
  8. ↑ variety.com
  9. ↑ Tina Poglajen: LOMO - The Language of Many Others: The cinematic manifestation of a virtual reality. Cineuropa, October 23, 2017, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  10. ↑ artechock.de
  11. ↑ Julia Langhof & Thomas Gerhold (LOMO - THE LANGUAGE OF MANY OTHERS) - Munich Film Festival. Retrieved September 16, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Person details: FIRST STEPS. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Person details: FIRST STEPS. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Prices:. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Lünen Cinema Festival | The 2017 prizes have been awarded! Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: Bavarian Film Prize 2017: All winners | BR.de . November 28, 2016 ( br.de [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  17. ↑ Qbus Werbeagentur GmbH: prices. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .
  18. ↑ The winners 2018 |. Retrieved on October 17, 2018 (German).
  19. ↑ The winners 2018 |. Retrieved on October 17, 2018 (German).
  20. ^ Lomo - The Language of Many Others. Retrieved October 17, 2018 .