Pitter Patter Goes My Heart

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Movie
Original title Pitter Patter Goes My Heart
Country of production Austria , Germany , USA
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 22 minutes
Rod
Director Christoph Rainer
script Christoph Rainer
production Mark Szilagyi
Film Academy Baden-Württemberg
Columbia University Film Division
Film Academy Vienna
music David Furrer
Samu Csernak
camera Georg Geutebrück
cut Roland Stöttinger
occupation

Pitter Patter Goes My Heart is a fiction film by the Austrian director Christoph Rainer from 2015. The short film, which has won several awards, premiered at the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont-Ferrand .

content

Lisa lives under one roof with her father, a "passionate alcoholic" whom the doctor has forbidden to drink. She works in a souvenir shop where she sells little because she is actually always daydreaming about a life with her Alf, who left her four years ago. Alf once wanted to be a great photographer, he had won her with beautiful-sounding oaths of love and his passion for flying kites, but now ekes out a rather arduous life as an advertising photographer. In the meantime, Lisa speaks to him on audio postcards with declarations of love - she wishes to be in his "strong arms" - but does not send the cards, but bunkers them under the devotional altar that she set up for Alf in her room.

When Lisa discovered one day that Alf was holding a photo shoot for legs with varicose veins in her town, she registered her father for a casting. Toughly and energetically, she gains entry to the casting bar and paints herself in pink colors as Alf flies towards her and takes her in his "strong arms", which she has been dreaming of for four years. Instead, she is identified by Alf's new assistant and lover as "Alf's wacky ex," and the disaster takes its course. The girls discover that they both fell for the exact same sayings and seduction tactics from Alf. Outraged, Rosi leaves the casting hall. Alf rushes after her, and what remains is a deeply disappointed and injured Lisa. She grabs a long kitchen knife from the counter and runs after Alf and Rosi - the two kiss, have obviously made up quickly - and the horrified Alf has to watch as Lisa stabs the knife into her chest. He catches her "with his strong arms" and Lisa, who is getting paler and paler, looks at the sky with a transfigured look.

production

After Christoph Rainer won the USD 20,000 IFF Emerging Filmmaker Award for his short film Requiem for a Robot in 2013 , he was invited by the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy to shoot a film based on his own script. The academy provided both the team and the equipment. The Vienna Film Academy joined the project as a co-producer and provided the cameraman and editor . Columbia University in New York, where Rainer had studied on a Fulbright scholarship , took part as the third co-producer .

The cameraman used an ARRI Alexa from the Zeiss Ultra Primes series.

The title Pitter Patter Goes My Heart (≈ Trippel Trappel Beats My Heart) quotes a title from the album "You Forgot it in People" (2002) by Broken Social Scene .

Prizes and awards (selection)

The film team at the presentation of the Austrian Film Prize 2015

The film has been shown at numerous international film festivals, has been nominated for awards and has won a total of 24 awards.

  • Prize of the Youth Jury (VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts , 2015)
  • Max Ophüls Prize for Best Short Film (37th Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize, 2016)
  • Best Student Film Award (21st New Jersey Film Festival, 2016)
  • Best Student Film Award (22nd San Luis Opispo International Film Festival, 2016)
  • Best Narrative Short (Yale Student Film Festival, 2016)
  • Audience Prize (Katra Film Series, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Austrian wins Emerging Filmmaker Competition at TIFF Global News, accessed on April 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Georg Geutebrück, Pitter Patter Goes My Heart, accessed on April 15, 2018
  3. ↑ Pitter Patter Goes my Heart, IMDb awards