Country: Germany
Year: 2007
Duration: 81'
A trip throughout highway worlds such as giant highway construction sites in Africa, high-tech factories of the global car manufacturing corporations, the river-spanning highways of Abuja, Bangkok’s Bang Na Express and California’s eight-lane super highways. The footage, distilled from industrial and educational films, as well as the music of Al Gromer Khan create the film’s base for an immersion into the highway spheres.
“In this film metaphors create an important stylistic meaning. The highway intersection represents the inner mental evolution of humans in the biosphere of highway world. The editing of the film is mostly done by means of graphical and sceno-graphical connections. 63 hours of film/video plus 1.700 photos resources made it possible to
create a cyclic repetition of the footage. The assemblage of the parts of the ‘found footage’ sets the film into the discourse of human evolution within the system of highway worlds.”
Biography
film director
Martin Hans Schmitt
Martin Hans Schmitt graduated in 2002 at HFF - Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München in documentary and he works at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich since 2003 making scientific and educational films. He realized several stereoscopic 3D real films and documentary films. From 2001 to 2003 he was creative director of Virtual Experience - The 3D Company. He is also a journalist for professional magazines in the field of digital video and a screenplay editor for Bayerischer Rundfunk, Bavaria Film and Columbia Tristar.
FILMOGRAFIA
Kopierte Muster (cm, 1995-2005), Werte, Heimat, Ostmusik (cm, doc., 1996), Mormonen - Wir sind Gottes Kinder (cm, doc., 1997), Deutschland zur Nacht (cm, 1998), Das Urteil (cm, 1998), Vater und Tochter (cm, 2000), Cyber-Heidi 3D (cm, 2002), Solution for the Moving Universe (cm, 2005), Pornotalk - Von Pfandflaschen und Traumfrauen (mm, doc., 2005), Alzheimer Treatment at the University of Munich (cm, doc., 2006), Highway World - living, changing, growing (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, story, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, producer Martin Hans Schmitt
musica/music Al Gromer Khan
suono/sound Al Gromer Khan, Martin Hans Schmitt
coproduzione/coproduction Filmförderungsanstalt
musica/music Al Gromer Khan
suono/sound Al Gromer Khan, Martin Hans Schmitt
coproduzione/coproduction Filmförderungsanstalt