28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
YOU (pl) and ME
synopsis
The video diary of a young woman involved in a love affair captures the metamorphosis of life and love on the outskirts of the Austrian metropolis. We follow the movements of spirit and body, approaching parenthood and other internal and external changes through the viewfinder of an old camera and the accompanying commentary. Although the film works with only photos and sound, it is full of motion. It creates an intimate atmosphere in which we watch Nica and Ben go through the twists and turns that life brings, which look like the most common and natural life events.DETAIL:
“Back then – before you. I had wanted it to stop. I wanted all of these indignities, putdowns, rejections, validity to intimacy, beneath this cloak of hot air called the modern ‘being’ – to stop.”
biography
Austrian director and editor Jasmin Hirtl (1985) received a degree in digital television from the University of Salzburg. She also studied film science in the United Kingdom and comparative literature at the University of Vienna. Since 2015, she has been studying experimental art in Linz. She has collaborated on a number of avant-garde films, including The Body as Montage: A Spectacle of Punishment (2010), directed by Mark de Valk. YOU and ME is her directorial debut.more about film
| director: | Jasmin Hirtl |
| producer: | Jasmin Hirtl |
| script: | Jasmin Hirtl |
| photography: | Jasmin Hirtl |
| editing: | Jasmin Hirtl |
| music: | Jasmin Hirtl |
| sound: | Jasmin Hirtl |
