Country: Germany, Austria
Year: 2016
Duration: 70'
Vienna, the 1950s. A childhood captured on 8mm film, documented by thirteen-year-old Johanna. [rm]
Biography
film director
Sandra Wollner
Sandra Wollner (Austria, 1983) studied theatre, film and communication at Vienna University. During that time, she started working as an editor and director in various formats. She then headed the postproduction division of a Viennese production company while working on her first self-produced films. She has been studying documentary filmmaking at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2012. The Impossible Picture is her first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mountains & Molehills (doc., 2013), Uns geht es gut (cm, doc., 2013), Louis & Luk (cm, doc., 2014), Viktor (cm, 2015), Das Unmögliche Bild (The Impossibile Picture, 2016).
Declaration
film director
“The film’s story is a rather common one from Vienna in the 1950s if people had gone looking for it. Somewhere between the childhood memories of an old Viennese lady, the voice of Helmut Qualtinger and the Super8 films of my own childhood, one elusive feeling emerged that fascinated me. When I think back on my childhood, those memories seem to be a chain of images adjacent to each other. Whether I actually experienced these or whether I was just shown them or told about it later can be hard to say in retrospect. These are family pictures, never showing more than a fraction of reality, pictures of parties, family gatherings or everyday events that somehow end up forming the core of our memories, sometimes even replacing them altogether. The Impossible Picture is a film about memory and its inherent relation to filmmaking and to the films we all make, so to speak, whether we use a camera or not.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Sandra Wollner
fotografia/cinematography
Timm Kröger
montaggio/film editing
Stephan Bechinger
scenografia/production design
Michel Jimenez
costumi/costume design
Miriam Eichinger
musica/music
Joscha Eickel
suono/sound
Norbert Bichler, Christoph Kuchner, Simon Peter
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jana McKinnon (Johanna), Eva Linder (la nonna/grandmother), Alexander E. Fennon (il padre/father), Andrea Schramek (la madre/mother), Isabel Schmidt (Lissi), Mira Reisinger (Gerda), Helmut Wiesner (lo zio Leopold/uncle Leopold), David Jakob (lo zio Georg/uncle Georg), Isabella Simon (la zia Bella/aunt Bella), Helmut Langer (Herr Karl)
produttori/producers
Andrea Grassl, Anja Schmidt
produzione/production
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
contatti/contacts
Filmakademie Baden Württemberg
Tim Kroger
www.filmakademie.de
Sandra Wollner
fotografia/cinematography
Timm Kröger
montaggio/film editing
Stephan Bechinger
scenografia/production design
Michel Jimenez
costumi/costume design
Miriam Eichinger
musica/music
Joscha Eickel
suono/sound
Norbert Bichler, Christoph Kuchner, Simon Peter
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Jana McKinnon (Johanna), Eva Linder (la nonna/grandmother), Alexander E. Fennon (il padre/father), Andrea Schramek (la madre/mother), Isabel Schmidt (Lissi), Mira Reisinger (Gerda), Helmut Wiesner (lo zio Leopold/uncle Leopold), David Jakob (lo zio Georg/uncle Georg), Isabella Simon (la zia Bella/aunt Bella), Helmut Langer (Herr Karl)
produttori/producers
Andrea Grassl, Anja Schmidt
produzione/production
Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
contatti/contacts
Filmakademie Baden Württemberg
Tim Kroger
www.filmakademie.de
