Competition
North American Premiere


EYESONG
AUGENLIED

Country of production: Germany
Year: 2003
Language: Germany, Polish, Spanish, Russian
Mins: 90

Director: Mishka Popp, Thomas Bergmann Cinematography: Andreas Höfer
Music: Glasmusik, Cantus Lapidum, Sidsel Endresen
Editing: Peter Przygodda
Sound: André Bendocchi-Alves
Producer: Sabine Fischer
Production company: Pilotfilm GmbH Frankfurt
Source: Mishka Popp, Thomas Bergmann
Pilotfilm
Unterweg 24
60318 Frankfurt-am-Main
GERMANY
Phone: +49 69 555 885
office@pilotfilm-gmbh.de
www.pilotfilm-gmbh.de


Excerpt from a statement by the filmmakers:
Does someone who doesn't see, see nothing?
Blindness is fascinating for the sighted. And alarming. And inconceivable.
How do the blind see the world?
We took a trip through Europe. And met very different people.
All are blind.
A film exclusively with the blind. But it deals with seeing.
With the Visible and the Invisible. With hearing, with smelling. With beauty and with fear.
With dreams.
With perception of the world with all the senses.
Not a film about the handicapped. A film about us. About our retina, our perception.
"The seeing, it seems to me, don't really see very much," somebody says at some point. And laughs.
And tells us a tale, wild and chaotic like a movie for the wide screen.
All the blind see. In their dreams.

….

EYESONG is a film about loss. And a film about wealth. A wealth that - however concealed - is in all of us. Suddenly, in the middle of Frankfurt, the blind mother says: "I smell the sea breeze." And the professor from England knows the answer to the question: Why does one kiss with closed eyes?

Mischka Popp studied at the School of Music and Theatre in Hanover, worked in theatre throughout Germany and Switzerland. Since 1983, she has worked in radio and television.

Thomas Bergmann studied ethnology. He has worked in literature and journalism since the 1960s.

filmography as director (films co-directed)
AUGENLIED (EYESONG) (2003)
HIGGS: DIE JAGD NACH DEM UNSICHTBAREN (2000)
KOPFLEUCHTEN (1998)
MALEN WIE MORD UND TOTSCHLAG (1996)
SCHOTTEN DICHT: EIN BEITRAG ZUR SICHERHEIT (1996)
DREI BAUERN UNTER EINEM HUT (1981)

Monday 05-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Gallery Theatre