Untitled (2017)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Untitled |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Michael Glawogger , Monika Willi |
| script | Michael Glawogger Monika Willi Attila Boa |
| production |
Tommy Pridnig , Peter Wirthensohn , Roman Paul , Gerhard Meixner |
| music | Wolfgang Mitterer |
| camera | Attila Boa |
| cut | Monika Willi |
| occupation | |
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Untitled is an Austrian - German co-production from 2017 by Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi . The documentary premiered in February 2017 as part of the 67th Berlin International Film Festival . In Austria, the film opened the Diagonale in 2017, the cinema release took place on March 31, 2017. In Germany, the film was released on October 26, 2017.
content
The film is based on the principle of serendipity , in which a chance observation of something that was not originally sought turns out to be a new and surprising discovery. Michael Glawogger said that the film should create a picture of the world, “as it can only be done if one does not pursue a topic, seek no evaluation and pursue no goal. When you don't let yourself be carried away by anything except your own curiosity and intuition. "
Among other things, you can see ghost towns in Serbia destroyed by war, wrestlers in Senegal, a winter mountain hut in Italy, gold prospectors in Sierra Leone, one-legged footballers in a civil war country and a little girl in a pink ski suit walking over a steep slope with a chainsaw in her hand Snow slope trudges. In a waste dump in the desert, children search the freshly delivered rubbish for usable items.
At the beginning of the film you can hear Glawogger on the sound track "The most beautiful film I can imagine is one that never comes to rest". And so Attila Boa's camera tracks the movement of people in a wide variety of situations: at work, on the road, while dancing and wrestling.
Production and Background
The filming took place from December 2013 to April 2014, and the film was shot in Italy , the Balkans and Northwest and West Africa . On December 3, 2013 Michael Glawogger set off together with Attila Boa (camera) and Manuel Siebert (sound) on a “documentary experiment” planned to last around a year. Without a ready-made concept, he filmed for this "film without a name" during a trip that began in Croatia , further stops were Bosnia-Herzegovina , Albania , Italy, Morocco , Western Sahara , Mauritania , Senegal , Mali , Guinea , Sierra Leone and most recently Liberia . He reported on his trip in the “Glawogger diaries”, which were published in the daily newspaper Der Standard and a blog of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Glawogger died of malaria in April 2014 while filming in Liberia . Glawogger's long-time film editor Monika Willi, who had already worked with him on the film during the shooting, took on his approximately 70 hours of video material and made this film from it.
The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Baden-Württemberg Media and Film Company and Eurimages , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by the Austrian Lotus Film , co-producers were the German Razor Film.
Glawogger's texts will be read by Birgit Minichmayr in the German version and by Fiona Shaw in the English version.
The film was released on DVD in 2018 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .
reception
The Youth Media Commission wrote in its assessment that the realistic and sometimes very hard shots of people from the garbage and war-damaged houses, a fight scene and especially the killing and skinning live a goat and be very intense animal carcasses. The sequence of scenes would seem very arbitrary, so that one wonders what it is actually about.
The Standard described the film as haunting because it would pick up two movements at the same time: "One accompanies the traveller's gaze, while the second from Glawogger is a little further away and already shows respect for his way of looking at the world."
Awards and nominations
Diagonal 2017
- Award in the category Best Image Creation Documentary (Attila Boa)
German Camera Prize 2017
- Award in the category Best Cinematography Documentary (Attila Boa)
- Awarded the Five Lakes Documentary Film Prize for Michael Glawogger (posthumous) and Monika Willi
Viennale 2017
- Awarded the Vienna Film Prize
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2017
- Nomination for the Golden Firebird Award
Madrid International Documentary Film Festival 2017
- Nomination for Best Feature-Length Documentary
Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2017
- Documentary Academy Award nomination
- Award in the category of best documentary film
- Award in the Best Music category
- Award in the Best Editing category
- Award in the category Best Sound Design (original sound: Manuel Siebert , sound design: Matz Müller , Erik Mischijew , mixing: Tobias Fleig )
- Nomination in the Best Camera category
Web links
- Untitled in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Untitled at filmportal.de
- Untitled on filmladen.at
- Untitled on lotus-film.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Untitled . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 168831 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Untitled . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Berlinale data sheet . Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Diagonale: opening film 2017 . Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved October 13, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Untitled at filmportal.de
- ↑ Diagonal: Untitled . Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ^ Kurier: Glawogger's last film at the Berlinale . Article dated February 13, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ^ Kurier: Filmmaker Michael Glawogger is dead . Article dated April 23, 2014, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ^ Pearl divers: Intoxicating meditation: Michael Glawogger's 'Untitled' (Panorama) . Article dated February 13, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung: Diagonale - Monika Willi: "There is a risk of double charging" . Article dated March 16, 2017, accessed March 8, 2020.
- ↑ derStandard.at: The STANDARD edition "The Austrian Film" is now an impressive 310 pieces . Article dated October 12, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018.
- ^ Film database of the Youth Media Commission: Untitled . Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ↑ derStandard.at: "Untitled": dream paths into enchanted paradise . Article dated March 27, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ↑ German Camera Prize 2017 awarded . Article dated June 26, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Untitled - Awards - IMDb . Retrieved October 13, 2017.
- ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.
- ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2018: Prize Winner . Accessed January 31, 2018.