28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
This Movie is a Gift
director: Anja Salomonowitz
original title: Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk
country: Austria
year: 2019
running time: 72 min.
synopsis
A sensitive portrait of Daniel Spoerri that takes viewers not only to the workroom of this versatile artist, but also to his childhood spent in Romania where his father fell victim to the Jewish pogrom. In addition to Spoerri himself, his assemblages speak to them, breathing new life into various objects. They enhance the theme of rebirth around which the director constructed her own personal, fine-tuned film. - Daniel Spoerri (1930) is a Swiss visual artist and writer born in Romania. He is famous for his snare-pictures (tableau pièges), in which he places groups of objects found in chance positions onto a plane surface so that the resulting object can be hung up like a painting.biography
Anja Salomonowitz (1976) studied film editing and directing in Vienna and Berlin. Her award-winning films, which have been screened at a number of festivals, both explore and cross the line between edgy and documentary filmmaking. In 2015, she presented her hybrid creative approach at Ex Oriente Film at the Ji.hlava Festival. She has also competed at the festival with her 2013 film, 727 Days Without Karam, and her 2006 film, It happened just before.more about film
| director: | Anja Salomonowitz |
| producer: | Anja Salomonowitz |
| script: | Anja Salomonowitz |
| editing: | Petra Zöpnek |
| music: | Bernhard Fleischmann |
