Szenario
Synopsis
The contents of a black briefcase lead us into a superficially well-ordered life in West Germany in 1970, in a city that can be seen as representative of the entire country. In this briefcase: the meticulous documentation of an affair between the small business owner Hans and his secretary Monika. A detailed protocol of their sexual activities leaves a trail through the field of infinite possibilities and finite probabilities of leading a different life under the same circumstances.
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Credits
Philip Widmann
Philip Widmann is a German filmmaker born in 1980 in West Berlin. He studied Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg and Visual Communications at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. Since 2009, he has been a member of the independent film laboratory LaborBerlin. His work moves between documentary cinema and visual art, and has been presented internationally at major festivals and institutions, including Berlin International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Film Festival, FID Marseille, CPH:DOX and Visions du Réel, as well as art venues such as the Wexner Center for the Arts and the WRO Media Art Biennale. His practice often explores themes of memory, history and transnational identity through formally experimental approaches.
Details
2014 - Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
2014 - Underdox München
2014 - CPH:DOX
