Riafn
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Riafn |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 30 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Hannes Lang |
| script |
Mareike Wegener , Hannes Lang |
| production | Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener |
| music | Hannes Lang |
| camera | Jakob Stark |
| cut | Hannes Lang |
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Riafn is an award-winning German short - documentary by director Hannes Lang from the year 2019 . The word "Riafn" comes from the South Tyrolean German and refers to the "calling" of the Alpine shepherds, which is at the center of the documentary musical . It is the second film that Hannes Lang produced himself as a member of the production collective "Petrolio" together with Mareike Wegener .
content
Riafn is a cinematic expedition into the sound space of the Alps , in which the dialects, calls and chants of the shepherds are condensed into a rhythmic and sensual mood. Between the artistic ideal and documentary reality, the musical film creates an Arcadian place of longing far removed from the compulsive speed and blind communication rage of contemporary life.
The film begins with a camera movement towards an abandoned alpine tunnel , from which traditional but alien sounding chants can be heard and suggest the advance into a parallel reality. In the dark interior of the tunnel, the camera moves towards a four-member choir in South Tyrolean costume , whose vocal performance runs backwards.
During the subsequent recut, what you see looks like the daydream of a shepherd who then leaves his hut and walks across an alpine meadow towards a mountain panorama. During this movement the echo of a first shepherd's call can be heard faintly from a distance. This is followed by several tableau-like images of individual shepherds in different alpine surroundings, who peer into the distance, calm and concentrated. Then a first shepherdess sends her call to the mountainous landscape, which seems to be promptly answered by another call. Gradually, the assembly of the individual shepherds and their individual calls builds up a fictitious communication, as if they were able to communicate with one another across the mountains, valleys and gorges based on their calls. At the same time, the musical and rhythmic potential of the calls is used and condensed into a piece of music or a soundscape .
Animals can only be seen at the beginning of the second third of the film. A group of goats follows a shepherd's whistle and call. The only interview-like moment in the film follows: In a monologue, an Italian shepherdess lists the names of all her goats. The subsequent montage shows how a shepherd fights against some adversity in order to drive his herd of goats to a crumbling stone house, where they feed and feed.
While the camera floats along the mountain range through the cloud fields, the wind carries new calls to her, to the rhythm of which the camera flies towards a shepherd. This is followed by a montage in which many different calls to be melded together in a surreal way. The various groups of animals soon set in motion in the woods and slopes. Captured in a single, spectacular camera panning , you can see a shepherd with the help of his German shepherd driving a flock of sheep over a distant slope.
This is followed by the cattle drive from a herd of cattle, accompanied by calls and loud bells . Above all, the multi-layered and interwoven sounds of the various bells and bells are in the foreground in this sequence.
The film closes with the group of goats that linger in the ruins of the stone house. The last montage shows a concentrated exchange of views between one of the goats and the shepherd.
production
Riafn is the second production of the collective "Petrolio" founded in 2012 by Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener and Carmen Losmann in Cologne and was created in coproduction with Arte . The production was supported by IDM Südtirol Alto Adige, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the artist support of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano - South Tyrol and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media . The film was shot on the RED Scarlet-W in 48 days in the summer of 2018 in Piedmont and South Tyrol .
publication
Riafn celebrated its world premiere in April 2019 in the competition for short and medium-length films at the Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland. The film was then shown at film festivals around the world, in many places it competed in the main competitions for awards, which it also won. In 2019, Riafn took part in the Trento Film Festival, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen , the Rhode Island International Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival, the Mountain Film Meetings, the shnit worldwide shortfilm festival, the PerSo Film Festival, and the Sapporo International Short Film Festival, at the International Mountain Film Festival Tegernsee, at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, at the Innsbruck Nature Festival, at the Cork Film Festival, at the Banff Center Mountain Film and Book Festival, at the Eho Mountain Film Festival, at the Bilbao Mendi Film Festival and at Alpine Film Festival. In 2020, the film could be seen until the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic , which resulted in countless festival cancellations , including at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, the Bamberg Short Film Festival, the Alpin Film Festival and MiradasDoc. The TV first broadcast took place in April 2020 on Arte .
Awards
- 2019: Trento Film Festival : Silver Gentian for the best technical-artistic achievement
- 2019: International Short Film Festival Oberhausen : Best entry in the NRW competition
- 2019: Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival: 1st Prize Best Cinematography, Jakob Stark
- 2019: Innsbruck Nature Film Festival: Best Short Film
- 2019: International Mountain Film Festival Tegernsee: Prize for the special film
- 2019: Eho Mountain Film Festival: Grand Prix
- 2019: Views Film Festival of the Ruhr Area: Special Mention
- 2020: Alpin Film Festival: Best Short Film
- 2020: Full Frame Documentary Film Festival: The Franklin Humanities Institute Award
reception
“What a prologue that the camera initially narrowed into a dark underpass. As if swallowed by an oral cavity, we are spat out again into the green expanse of the Alps by the magnificent Cinemascope images. This spatial experience is juxtaposed with a vocal and sonic resonance space, in which the occasional call of the shepherds and the ringing of cowbells condense into a fantastic conversation between people, nature and cattle. With impressive precision and rhythm, Hannes Lang makes the incomprehensible tangible with the eye in RIAFN - in pictures that actually 'call' to the big screen. "
“The film is an extraordinary portrait of individual people who live on remote alpine pastures. It is a surprising experience to immerse yourself in the world of traditional communication between humans, nature and animals. Thanks to the acoustic wealth and expressive images, a filmic meditation is created in front of an alpine backdrop. "
Web links
- Riafn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Riafn trailer on vimeo
- Film production website
- Notation from Trento, festival report by Hannes Lang on salto.bz
- Interview with Hannes Lang and Mareike Wegener in the StadtRevue
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Riafn . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 189537 / K).
- ↑ Website of the production company
- ↑ Funding notification of the IDM Südtirol Alto Adige
- ↑ Funding notification from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
- ↑ Website of the production company
- ^ Funding notification from the BKM
- ^ Arte program website
- ^ Website of the Trento Film Festival
- ^ Website of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival
- ^ Website of the Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival
- ^ Website of the Innsbruck Nature Film Festival
- ^ Website of the Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival
- ^ Website of the Eho Mountain Film Festival
- ↑ website of the view film festival
- ↑ Website of the Alpin Film Festival
- ^ Website of the Full Frame Film Festival
- ^ Website of the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
- ^ Website of the Tegernsee Mountain Film Festival