Traces of an Elephant
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| Original title | Traces of an Elephant |
| Country of production |
Germany , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 26:15 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vanessa Nica Mueller |
| script | Vanessa Nica Mueller |
| production | Vanessa Nica Mueller |
| occupation | |
Traces of an Elephant ( German traces of an elephant ) is a German - British short film by Vanessa Nica Mueller from the year 2011 . In Germany, the film premiered on May 7, 2011 at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen .
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The film is about the return to locations in Belfast of Alan Clarke's short film Elephant from 1989. 22 years have passed since Clark's shooting. Mueller goes back to the locations and tries to portray the changes that Belfast has undergone in over two decades. The journey into the past becomes an experience of change.
Reviews
“Targeted steps and movements through empty spaces, their rhythmic sequence creates a hypnotic pull - redundancy and absence as a subtle threat. The presence and impact of these images is confronted with the fragmentary and dream-like quality of memories ... a new film is created. With her appropriation of Alan Clarke's 'Elephant', which is as simple as it is efficient, Vanessa Nica Mueller succeeds in creating a multi-layered treatise on memory as a transition zone between reconstruction and retelling. 'Traces of an Elephant' covers the original like a second layer and expands into a personal document of a city between stagnation and change. "
Awards
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2011
- Prize for the best contribution to the German competition
Individual evidence
Web links
- Traces of an Elephant in the Internet Movie Database (English)