FOR REASONS UNKNOWN

film type experimental film, fiction Production Country Germany production year 2020 runtime 16'01 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround languages fantasy
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby A languages Fantasy

A genre-pull in which the presence of the characters and the cinematic medium range between invisibility, heightened perception and physical presence. A real thriller!

Official Trailer: https://vimeo.com/385784488

director Tom Otte Animation Maris Polis Besetzung / Cast Bekim Latifi, Benjamin Hassmann, Sebastian Rudolph Schnitt / Editing Salka Tiziana, Tom Otte Bildgestaltung / DOP Tom Otte Produktion / Production Tom Otte Drehbuch / Script Tom Otte Tongestaltung / Sound Design Jakob Spengemann film school Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg
Festivals
2020 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2020 Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany
2020 exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany
2020 interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2020 KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
Production
  • Tom Otte
  • Amselring 78
  • 24220 Flintbek
  • http://www.tom-otte.com
Distribution
  • Tom Otte
  • Amselring 78
  • 24220 Flintbek
  • http://www.tom-otte.com
Sales
  • Tom Otte
  • Amselring 78
  • 24220 Flintbek
  • http://www.tom-otte.com
School

Tom Otte

Born 1991;
graduated from the University of Fine Arts Hamburg in 2019 with the short film FOR REASONS UNKNOWN;
DoP on Salka Tiziana’s feature length debut TAL DÍA HIZO UN AÑO;
works as a freelance cinematographer

Filmography
2015 Küche des Glücks
2016 I Know When You’re Blue, I Know When You’re Lonely