Intimate Distance

director: Henrika Kull, Leonardo Franke, Steffen Köhn

original title: Intimate Distance

year: 2014

running time: 17 min.

synopsis

Intimate Distance examines the topic of modern communication via Skype. Highlights of real, intimate conversations recorded over a period of several months by webcams give us a glimpse into three forms of international family relationships in digitally mediated closeness.

DETAIL:
Axel – Serpil; Berlin – Istanbul: 2,215 km. Patricia – Milena; Leipzig - Barranquilla: 8,861 km. Maija – Olga and Nina; Berlin – Moscow: 1,817 km. “Kiss me. Good night. I’ll be online all day at work tomorrow.”

biography

Steffen Köhn (1980) studied at social anthropology, film studies and directing in Mainz and Berlin. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Anthropology and African Studies, concentrating on the theory and practice of ethnographic films, media anthropology, transnationalism and post-colonialism as mirrored in his documentaries After Hours, A Tale of Two Islands, Tell me when..., and Morokapel’s Feast.

more about film

director:	Henrika Kull, Leonardo Franke, Steffen Köhn
cast:	Axel Hartfiel, Serpil Celik, Patricia Rendon, Milena Rendon, Maina Gridina
producer:	Henrika Kull
photography:	Axel Hartfiel, Patricia Rendon, Maina Gridina
editing:	Leonardo Franke
sound:	Kristian Raue

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