Fata Morgana (2013)

ALL 07/10/2013 (en) Documentary 140 Min
  • Release
    07/10/2013
  • Production
    Peter Schreiner Filmproduktion (echt.zeit.film)
  • Rotten tomato
    50%
  • Original title
    Fata Morgana
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the utterly monumental Fata Morgana. Shot in the Libyan desert and in an abandoned building in Lausitz, Germany, it features a man (Christian Schmidt), a woman (Giuliana Pachner, from Bellavista) - and, glimpsed now and again, a guide (Awad Elkish.) They talk, they fall silent. Winds blow. The sun shines. The camera runs. What gradually takes shape is nothing less than a painstakingly concentrated attempt to understand the human condition through the lens of cinema. A lofty ambition, and one that demands a considerable leap of faith on the part of the audience: this film is sedate, "difficult", challenging, often apparently impenetrable. But anyone who has seen Schreiner's previous films will be aware that he is by any standards a major artist, one that can be trusted to find places that other directors may not even suspect exist.

  1. Peter Schreiner

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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Fata Morgana (2013) 140 Min

ALL 07/10/2013 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 07/10/2013
  • Production
    Peter Schreiner Filmproduktion (echt.zeit.film)
  • Original title Fata Morgana
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the utterly monumental Fata Morgana. Shot in the Libyan desert and in an abandoned building in Lausitz, Germany, it features a man (Christian Schmidt), a woman (Giuliana Pachner, from Bellavista) - and, glimpsed now and again, a guide (Awad Elkish.) They talk, they fall silent. Winds blow. The sun shines. The camera runs. What gradually takes shape is nothing less than a painstakingly concentrated attempt to understand the human condition through the lens of cinema. A lofty ambition, and one that demands a considerable leap of faith on the part of the audience: this film is sedate, "difficult", challenging, often apparently impenetrable. But anyone who has seen Schreiner's previous films will be aware that he is by any standards a major artist, one that can be trusted to find places that other directors may not even suspect exist.

  1. Peter Schreiner

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Peter Schreiner

    Editor

  4. Producer