Take What You Can Carry

film type fiction Production Country Germany, USA production year 2015 runtime 30'00 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Stereo languages Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch

A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps.

director Matt Porterfield Besetzung / Cast Angela Schanelec, Gob Squad, Hannah Gross, Jean-Christophe Folly Schnitt / Editing Amanda Larson Bildgestaltung / DOP Jenny Lou Ziegel Produktion / Production Zsuzsanna Kiràly Drehbuch / Script Matt Porterfield Tongestaltung / Sound Design Danny Meltzer, Gene Park
Production
  • Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Distribution
  • Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • Deutschland
  • +49 30 26955110
  • http://www.arsenal-berlin.de

Matt Porterfield

has written and directed three feature films, all produced in Baltimore, where he was born and raised;
his work is part of the permanent collection of the MoMa, the Harvard Film Archive and was screened at the Whitney Biennial, Walker Arts Center, Centre Pompidou international film festivals;
he teaches film theory and production at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art

Filmography
2006 HAMILTON (feature length)
2011 PUTTY HILL (feature length)
2011 DAYS ARE GOLDEN AFTERPARTY
2014 I USED TO BE DARKER
2015 TAKE WHAR YOU CAN CARRY