Jochen
Daniel Fill / Austria / 2020 / World Premiere / 47 min.
synopsis
A sequence of bucolic black-and-white fragments of the southern Tuscan countryside opens a portrait of a peaceful daily routine, of reconciled old age spent in a sun-drenched idyll. Without a hint of emotion, Jochen, aged seventy, outlines the unsettled life of a retired drug smuggler, the life of a person with two stories – one as an outlaw, the second as the respectable head of a family. The account starts with the first days of the hippy movement and psychedelia in Germany, covers the profitable illegal subsistence associated with marijuana, opium and heroin, and ends with a transitory existence in the Tuscan paradise. It is a monotonous narrative of an uncommon life intertwined with the motif of personal freedom as symbolized by a ride on an unsaddled horse.
Q&A with Daniel Fill:
biography
Daniel Fill (1992) lives and works in Vienna. He is studying art and film under Thomas Heise at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He has made two short films: Le Forme della Lentezza (2016) and An Exotic Space (2017).more about film
| director: | Daniel Fill |
| producer: | Daniel Fill |
| photography: | Julian Fill , Daniel Fill |
| sound: | Julian Fill, Daniel Fill |
| sound design: | Ulrich Dallinger |
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Film at festival
| premiere type: | World Premiere |
| festival edition: | 2020 |
| section: | Between the Seas: Student Film Competition |
| format: | DCP |
| language: | Italian, German |
| subtitles: | English |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Daniel Fill |
| original title: | Jochen |
| country: | Austria |
| year: | 2020 |
| running time: | 47 min. |
