Silhouette

film type experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2010 runtime 6'00 colour
screening format Blu-Ray aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo
screening format Media File (ProRes, mp4, mov) aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo

The idyllic life in a small peaceful village is briefly interrupted by rain. "The scene is probably familiar, yet puzzling. The sounds of a peaceful landscape, perhaps early in the morning, before everything gets going. A play with sound and image, a visual reduction that is left to the imagination to interpret, that is a red herring, and does not even solve the riddle - because where can it possibly rain upwards?" (from the laudation for the Media Art Film Award, Ruhr)

director Astrid Busch Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Max Richter Schnitt / Editing Astrid Busch Bildgestaltung / DOP Astrid Busch Produktion / Production Astrid Busch Drehbuch / Script Astrid Busch Tongestaltung / Sound Design
Festivals
Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney, Germany
Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
Internationales Frauen* Film Fest Dortmund+Köln, Dortmund, Köln, Germany
Montreal Festival du nouveau cinéma, Canada
OpenEyes Filmfest, Marburg-Amöneburg, Germany
SyrFilmFest, Syracuse, USA
Visionaria International Film Festival, Siena, Italy
MIT European Short Film Festival, Boston, USA
Traverse Vidéo, Toulouse, France
blicke - filmfestival des ruhrgebiets, Bochum, Germany (Medienkunst Filmpreis Ruhr)
San Gio Video Festival, Verona, Italy
Production
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Distribution
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Sales
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Astrid Busch

Born 1968 in Homburg;
works as a filmmaker and cinematographer;
since 2000 lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Dortmund

Filmography
2009 Idyll