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Falsche Freunde
False Friends

film type experimental film Production Country Germany production year 2007 runtime 5'00 colour Color
screening format Beta SP aspect ratio 1.33:1 (4:3) sound format Stereo

A montage of found footage from the 50s: Mysterious plot lines are obsessively enwined to create a poetic reflection about an anxious interplay of memory and projection.

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director Sylvia Schedelbauer Original Score Sylvia Schedelbauer Editing Sylvia Schedelbauer Script Sylvia Schedelbauer DOP Found Footage
Festivals
New York Film Festival, New York City, USA
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
L'Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Spain
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
EMAF - European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Germany (Preis der deutschen Filmkritik für Experimentalfilm)
Oslo Screen Festival, Norway (Honourable Mention)
Production
  • Sylvia Schedelbauer
Distribution
  • Sylvia Schedelbauer
Sales
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Sylvia Schedelbauer

Living and working in Berlin;
she holds an Art Teaching Degree from the Academy of Arts Berlin;
2006 to 2007, masterclass student at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK);
2003 to 2006, studies in fine arts at the UdK

Filmography
2007 Falsche Freunde
2007 Ferne Intimität
2009 Way Fare
2011 Sounding Glass
2014 Sea of Vapors
2018 Wishing Well
2022 Oh, Butterfly!

Portrait of Sylvia Schedelbauer