short, 2023
Margot and Linda are about to get Linda's Husband, who also happens to be Margot's Boyfriend, to prison, when the doorbell rings.
Director / DoP / Editor: Sebastian Ganschow
Sound Design: Manik Möllers, Jan Eric Kohrs
Music: Patrick Kuhn-Botelho
Cast
Alma Buddecke
Vreni Sarnes
Louis Hofmann
Remember the pandemic? Me neither, but apparently there was a lockdown in 2020 were you couldn’t leave your flat. Luckily at that time Vreni and Alma were basically living at my place. So we used our spare time to shoot this little thing, which startet out as a Film school exercise. @threebusydebras had just come out and someone showed me “Greener Grass” and we wanted to try something inspired by those. So I wrote this script based on the reality that Alma and Vreni did spend their day watching beauty tutorials. Two days later we startet shooting on some old film stock I found in my fridge with my Bolex camera. Spontaneously Louis Hofmann came by and was forced to join the cast as well.
As this was made for a film school class that didn’t anticipate someone shooting in film, we only had 3 days to finish the film. That could never work, shooting on film, especially during a global pandemic. Here is our solution: i taped my iPhone to the back of the Bolex camera, I shot this with, and used my phone as a DIY video assist. I then edited the whole film with the recordings of the iPhone. Then the developed negative went into a cheap telecine. Finally I replaced the iPhone clips with the scanned film material later. As a result of the variable frame rate of the iPhone, and the not really consistent speed of the spool driven Bolex resulted in anything but sync sound. This could have been fixed probably, but I really liked the eerie dissociation the off-sync sound created. So we just kept it. I hope you like it as well.