27° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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LENNY

LENNY
by Cyril Amon Schublin
Country: Germany
Year: 2009
Duration: 17'


An adolescent relationship experienced through a webcam lens and
a computer keyboard.

“The use of computers and internet has changed our perception and
the way we relate to reality. Curious about the wide spread use of
webcams, I have discovered the so called vlogs or video blogs. Young
teenagers record themselves in all possible situations and show the
images produced online to an unknown public on Youtube. Inspired
by these real characters, I created the figures Anton and Lenny, who
meet each other in the world of the internet. I decided to abandon
them into both a virtual and an urban reality by forcing them to
confront their webcam screen existence with the real public space,
recorded on classical celluloid film. I asked myself: How would they
communicate and what does it mean to face someone virtually?”

Biography

film director

Cyril Amon Schaublin

(Zurich, Switzerland, 1984) studied ethnology, history and sinology at the University of Zurich from 2003 to 2005 and then studied for a year at the Beijing Film Academy. In 2003 he debuted with the short Das Licht der Maschine, followed in 2005 by Qiao and Zhinanzhen, both of which were shot with the support of the Beijing Film Academy. Since 2006 he has been studying at Berlin’s Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie, where he was a student of Lav Diaz and James Benning and shot the shorts Mein Bruder, der Rabe, Stomausfall, Party Animals and Lenny, the latter selected at the Torino Film Festival in 2009. His first feature film Those Who Are Fine (2017) premiered in Locarno and Rotterdam. Unrest, which was selected at the Berlinale section Encounters, is his second feature. 

FILMOGRAFIA

Das Licht der Maschine (cm, 2003), Qiao (cm, 2005), Zhinanzhen (cm, 2005), Mein Bruder, der Rabe (cm, 2006), Stromausfall (cm, 2007), Party Animals (cm, 2008), Lenny (cm, 2009), Portrait (cm, 2011), Stampede (cm, 2012), Modern Times (cm, 2013), Public Library (cm, 2013), I de Schwiis (cm, 2014), Dene wos guet geit (Those Who Are Fine, 2017), Kropotkin (cm, 2018), Il faut fabriquer ses cadeaux (cm, 2021), Unrueh (Unrest, 2022).

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto,
sceneggiatura/director,
story, screenplay
Cyril Amon Schaublin
fotografia/cinematography
Mario Krause
montaggio/film editing
Cyril Amon Schaublin,
Karsten Weissenfels
scenografia/
production design
Caroline Wächter
costumi/costume design
Maren Zielke, Julian Zigerli
suono/sound
Felix Eichholtz
interpreti e personaggi/
cast and characters
Lilith Stangenberg (Lenny),
Anton Ambrosino (Anton)
produttori/producers
Niklas Hlawatsch,
Bernadette Klausberger
produzione/production
German Film and Television
Academy Berlin
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