Sound recording/Sound design/Composition

for

 

DRIFT

2017

 

a film by Helena Wittmann

 

Two women spend a weekend together at the North Sea. Walks on the beach, fish buns at a snack stand, mobile weather forecasts. Sky, horizon, water. One of them will soon return to her family in Argentina, whereas the other one will try to come a step closer to the ocean. She travels to the Caribbean and the unknown makes her vulnerable. Then, the land gets out of sight. On a sailing vessel she crosses the Atlantic Ocean. One wave follows the other, they never resemble. Thoughts go astray, time leaves the beaten track and the swell lulls to deep sleep. The sea takes over the narration. And when she reappears, the wind is still in her hair while the ground beneath her feet is solid. She returns and the other one could ask: „Have you changed?“

 

CAST Theresa George I Josefina Gill

CONCEPT Helena Wittmann I Theresa George

DIRECTING I CINEMATOGRAPHY I EDITING Helena Wittmann

SOUND RECORDING I SOUNDDESIGN I COMPOSITION Nika Breithaupt aka Nika Son

 

FOCUS PULLER Pia Lamster TITLE DESIGN I DOLLY GRIP Steffen Goldkamp DRAMATURGICAL ADVICE Luise Donschen SOUNDMIX Simon Bastian COULOUR GRADING Tim Liebe

 

PRODUCTION T, N, H I Fuenferfilm

 

World premiere at The 72. Settimana Internazionale della Critica

(74th Venice International Film Festival)

 

 

further screenings:

 

International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
New Directors / New Films, New York, USA
Artist's Cinema Tate Modern, UK
Jeonju Int. Film Festival, South Corea
FICUNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
FID Marseille, France
Viennale 2018, Vienna, Austria
Lima Independiente Film Festival, Peru (SPECIAL JURY MENTION)
FILMADRID, Spain (BEST FILM AWARD)
ZINEBI Bilbao (SPECIAL JURY MENTION)
Lacenodoro Int. Film Festival (BEST FEATURE FILM AWARD)
Athens Int. Film & Video Festival, Ohio, USA (BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM AWARD)
Tacoma Film Festival, USA (BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM AWARD)
Festival du Nouveau Cinema Montreal
New Horizons Int. Film Festival
Filmfest Hamburg
Berwick Film&Media Arts Festival
Nordic Filmdays Lübeck
Doc Buenos Aires, Argentina
Filmwoche Duisburg
Kaunas Int. Film Festival
Ton, Zeit, Bild, Filmladen Kassel
Stranger Than Fiction, Cologne
EYE Film Institute Amsterdam / Dag van de Dwarse Film 2018
if Independent Film Festival Istanbul
IBAFF Int. Film Festival Murcia, Spain
Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain
Int. Film Festival Uruguay, Uruguay
Oaxaca Cine, Mexico
Int. Film Festival Cosquin, Argentina
VariaVision Volksbühne Berlin, Germany
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Goethe Institut London, UK
Festival de Cine Radical, Bolivia
Antofacine Int. Film Festiva, Chile
KINO 2019, Portugal
Filmreihe Cinema+, Berlin
TIFF Bell Lightbox, MDFF presents, Toronto, Canada
Frontera Sur Int. Film Festival, Chile
Metropolis Cinema Hamburg, Germany
Balkanrouten @ Filmhaus - Kino am Spittelberg, Vienna, Austria
Eurocine, Quito, Ecuador
This is Cinema Now @ Lincoln Center, NYC, USA
Skandalös Festival, Germany
Metropolis Kino, Hamburg, Germany