Nika Son
Sound Design / Music
for
WILDNIS (The Wild)
A film by Helena Wittmann
2013
Potatoes have to be peeled, withered orchid blossoms must be plucked. Then everything is in order.
ABOUT THE FILM Besides the theme of unexpected complexity of individual life paths, the film particularly points out the possibility of “cinematic space” in form of a “third space”. The construction is based on the merging of two spaces that are seemingly in contrast to each other. The first space is the specific living space of a retired couple. The second space is embodied in film recordings by the man, which were shot on Super 8 between the sixties and nineties during numerous travels to Africa and Asia. The pictures show animals, which over the course of the film are projected into the living space. The specific of this construction is that no frontiers but a verge is formed between the spaces mentioned above. Therefore in the moment of the third space – as it is limited in time – a new cinematic reality is formed.
Screenings / Awards
59th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, 2013
26th European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, 2013
29th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, 2013
02.05.13 3Sat, TV broadcast
10th Documentary Film Festival, Hamburg, 2013
10th FEMINA – Festival Internacional de Cinema Feminino, Rio de Janeiro, 2013
7th Int. Short and Animation Film Festival OPEN CINEMA, St. Petersburg, 2013 // Special Jury Mention
37th Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, 2013
Unten am Havn – Copenhagen meets Hamburg, 2013
In the programme „Four walls“ at the Symposium „Schutzraum“, Bremen, 2013
Filmfestival Münster, 2013
Museum Vostell Malpartida, Spain in a programme of video art by Berta Sichel, 2013
55th Nordische Filmtage, Lübeck, 2013
23rd Curta Cinema Filmfestival, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 2013
13th Flensburger Kurzfilmtage, 2013 // Award „Hauptpreis Wagnis; Förderpreis der Stadt Flensburg“
30th Kasseler Dokfest, 2013
21th OZU Filmfestival, Italy, 2013
26th Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, 2013
13th Oldenburger Kurzfilmtage, 2013
25th Istanbul International Short Film Festival, Turkey, 2014
Fullframe Artfilmfestival, Vienna, 2014
New Directors-New Films 2014 / Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA, New York, USA
52nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2014