Letztes Jahr in Utopia
Last Year in Utopia
Das kurzweilige Filmexperiment Letztes Jahr in Utopia untersucht als Reenactment soziale Strukturen im Kontext eines medial inszenierten Gruppen-Experiments und öffnet dadurch den Blick auf die dahinterliegenden Machtverhältnisse. Langsam folgen wir den ProtagonistInnen in ein Dickicht von Erinnerungen. Beim Betrachten erlebt man eine Versuchsanordnung mit abstrakt rekonstruierten Alltagssituationen am Ort des Geschehens. Im Wechselspiel zwischen Kamera, SchauspielerInnen, RegisseurInnen, BeobachterInnen und ProtagonistInnen versucht der Film die Schnittmenge von realer Lebensutopie und kapitalistischer Konzeption zu analysieren. (Lotte Schreiber)
The participants of a reality TV show, which collapsed mid-production, meet again in the forest where they were meant to develop a utopian society, in a social experiment in front of rolling cameras. But what happened only becomes evident as the film's reconstruction unfolds – Bertolt Brecht meets Big Brother. The relationship between participant and spectator is turned on its head by actors with white makeup, who in the minimalist setting recreate the utopian collapse. Last Year in Utopia charts the territory between documentary filmmaking and conceptual art in a way that questions both genres. (Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival)
Director's Biography
Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust
Katharina Knust studied Media Arts at Bauhaus-University, Weimar and at Concordia University, Montréal. After an Artist Residency in Finland at Talo, Rovaniemi, she participated in the Masterclass for documentary filmmakers in 2013 and the PMMC Lab 2015 - 2016 at the Werkleitz Center for Media Arts. She works as a freelance filmmaker in Basel. Jana Magdalena Keuchel is a film director and artist based in Leipzig. She worked as a lecturer at Bauhaus-University Weimar and Liberia Film Institute and is part of the Film Collective „Filmische Initiative Leipzig“. She participated in the PMMC Lab 2015 - 2016 at the Werkleitz Center for Media Arts. In 2018 she was participant of Berlinale Talents.
Films Knust: Hier (2014, doc short), Eismädchen (2012, doc)
Films Keuchel: Kontakt (2015, doc short), Die Drehung der Welt (2012, short)
Katharina Knust studied Media Arts at Bauhaus-University, Weimar and at Concordia University, Montréal. After an Artist Residency in Finland at Talo, Rovaniemi, she participated in the Masterclass for documentary filmmakers in 2013 and the PMMC Lab 2015 - 2016 at the Werkleitz Center for Media Arts. She works as a freelance filmmaker in Basel. Jana Magdalena Keuchel is a film director and artist based in Leipzig. She worked as a lecturer at Bauhaus-University Weimar and Liberia Film Institute and is part of the Film Collective „Filmische Initiative Leipzig“. She participated in the PMMC Lab 2015 - 2016 at the Werkleitz Center for Media Arts. In 2018 she was participant of Berlinale Talents.
Films Knust: Hier (2014, doc short), Eismädchen (2012, doc)
Films Keuchel: Kontakt (2015, doc short), Die Drehung der Welt (2012, short)
Architektur und Gesellschaft | Architecture and Society 2018
Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust
Deutschland 2017
color
73 Minuten
Deutsch OmeU
Drehbuch Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust
Kamera Florian Fischer, Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust, Maxi Richter
Ton/Sounddesign Katharina Knust, Kathrin Lemcke, Andrea Rüthel, Ginan Seidl, Justus Wirth
Musik Musikmusik (Moritz Sembritzki, Will Sieger)
Mit Matthias Bernhold, Laura Eichten, Benedikt Flörsch, Mirja Henking, Mia Kaspari, Carolin Maiwald, Léon Schröder, Maik Schrank, Bejean Jaye Banner, Achim Biedermann, Ralf Bockholdt, Franziska Fleige, Amber de la Horra, Raha Emami Khansari, Kadir Peker, Claudia Plöckl, Babette Winter
Produzent*innen Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust
Österreichpremiere
Weltpremiere / World PremiereCPH:DOX 2018
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere