Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 5'40''
Dr. Hoffmann, the inventor of aspirin, is returning home and, as usual, he takes one of his famous pills. The twist is that from this moment on the leading actor is the aspirin, from its subjective point of view.
"The visual language used has been liberally borrowed from the so-called noir B-movies; for example, the shooting angles, close-up details, the contrasting light and the long shadows. The idea is to show how, by modifying the position of the observer with respect to any object, the object itself is modified and can be viewed in a way that is emotionally different, undergoing projections that alter its substance" (Thorsten Kirchhoff).
Biography
film director
Thorsten Kirchhoff
Thorsten Kirchhoff was born in 1960 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has lived and worked in Rome since 1984. He has participated at two Biennial Exhibitions in Venice and this year he was also present at the Biennial Exhibition in Valencia. An Evening with Dr. Hoffmann, his first short film, was shot in 16mm and later enlarged to 35mm.
FILMOGRAFIA
Il giustiziere del suono (cm, 1997), My Dear Thorndike (cm, 1997), Una serata con il dottor Hoffmann (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Thorsten Kirchhoff.
Director of photography: Marcello Muro.
Art director: 21st Century Design.
Editor: Per K. Kierkegaard.
Music: Rasmus Jakobsen, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Mads Lundberg.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Thorsten Kirchhoff per Wedding Bells Production, Thorsten Kirchhoff, via Antonio Cerasi 5/B, 00152 Rome, Italy, tel./fax +39-06-58201207, e-mail oscarbam@libero.it.
Director of photography: Marcello Muro.
Art director: 21st Century Design.
Editor: Per K. Kierkegaard.
Music: Rasmus Jakobsen, Thorsten Kirchhoff, Mads Lundberg.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Thorsten Kirchhoff per Wedding Bells Production, Thorsten Kirchhoff, via Antonio Cerasi 5/B, 00152 Rome, Italy, tel./fax +39-06-58201207, e-mail oscarbam@libero.it.