screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Surround
original-language
Japanese
screening format
Blu-Ray
aspect ratio
2.35:1 (CinemaScope)
sound format
Dolby Digital
original-language
Japanese
Consisting of material the filmmaker shot shortly after the devastating catastrophe in Japan in 2011, this filmic composition approaches the limits of perception and tries, by means of overlapping images and sounds, to create a room of disorientation and helplessness.
director
Sebastian Mez
Original Score
Sebastian Mez
Editing
Sebastian Mez
DOP
Sebastian Mez
Production
Sebastian Mez
Script
Sebastian Mez
Sound Design
Sebastian Mez
Festivals
2014
Visions du Réel, Nyon, Switzerland
2014
IndieLisboa International Film Festival, Lissabon, Portugal
2014
DOCUMENTA MADRID, Madrid, Spain
(Second Jury Prize)
2014
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
2014
New Horizons Film Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
2014
dokufest - International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Prizren, Republic of Kosovo
2014
São Paulo International Short Film Festival (Curta Kinoforum), Brazil
2014
Festival Silhouette, Paris, France
2014
FestCurtasBH - Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Brazil
2014
Curtocircuíto - Festival Internacional de Cinema e Artes Visuais, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(Explora Award)
2014
Tehran International Short Film Festival, Iran
2014
IDFA International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands
2014
CPH:DOX Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark
2014
Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest, Germany
2014
Aguilar Film Festival, Aguilar de Campoo, Spain
2014
ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, Spain
2014
RIDM - Montreal International Documentary Festival, Canada
2014
Panorama Internacional Coisa de Cinema, Salvador de Bahía, Brazil
2014
Europäisches Kurzfilmfestival Köln UNLIMITED, Germany
Production
- Levitate Films
- Sebastian Mez
Distribution
- Levitate Films
- Sebastian Mez
Sales
- Levitate Films
- Sebastian Mez
Sebastian Mez
Born 1982;
2007-12 studies at Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg;
several festivals and prizes;
his feature film METAMORPHOSEN was introduced at the Berlinale;
lives and works in Berlin
Filmography
2008 CLEAN UP
2010 BRASA
2011 EIN BRIEF AUS DEUTSCHLAND
2013 METAMORPHOSEN (FEATURE FILM)