GEILE GÖTTER AM STRAND (AT)
[Hans Broich & Felix Leitner / feature-length / in production]
Cast
Short Synopsis
Fiction differs from everyday experience not in that it has less, but more rationality. The documentary film indistinct chatter (AT) explores the relation between everyday experience and fiction through the montage of many subjective holiday shots on the beach of Lido di Venezia. Our protagonists document their beach holidays with their respective demands and prejudices during the high season and describe themselves by means of what they film, how they film and in what way they influence what is filmed. The beach as a fleeting, condensed and diverse micro-society that reconstitutes itself and dissolves again daily over the course of the day becomes a starry sky under which each person recognises what they have learned to recognise. Thousands of people from different cultures, classes and ages gather here to bathe and waste their time, structured by nothing but the course of the sun. The beach marks the border between land and sea, between one nation and another. It represents the common ground where collective national possessions, memory and identity are publicly displayed; a place of pleasure, leisure and pride. Anthropologist Michael Taussig describes the beach as a place of fantasy production, a playground where transgressions and pleasures take place.
GEILE GÖTTER AM STRAND is a montage of countless documentary holiday shots on the beach of Lido di Venezia. Dozens of small views on the world show our protagonists‘ search for an illusion that they can live with.
Fiction differs from everyday experience not in that it has less, but more rationality. The documentary film indistinct chatter (AT) explores the relation between everyday experience and fiction through the montage of many subjective holiday shots on the beach of Lido di Venezia. Our protagonists document their beach holidays with their respective demands and prejudices during the high season and describe themselves by means of what they film, how they film and in what way they influence what is filmed. The beach as a fleeting, condensed and diverse micro-society that reconstitutes itself and dissolves again daily over the course of the day becomes a starry sky under which each person recognises what they have learned to recognise. Thousands of people from different cultures, classes and ages gather here to bathe and waste their time, structured by nothing but the course of the sun. The beach marks the border between land and sea, between one nation and another. It represents the common ground where collective national possessions, memory and identity are publicly displayed; a place of pleasure, leisure and pride. Anthropologist Michael Taussig describes the beach as a place of fantasy production, a playground where transgressions and pleasures take place.
GEILE GÖTTER AM STRAND is a montage of countless documentary holiday shots on the beach of Lido di Venezia. Dozens of small views on the world show our protagonists‘ search for an illusion that they can live with.
Funding
CINE ART Steiermark