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California City

Deutschland 2014 Dokumentarfilm mit Spielhandlung

A story about searching and longing. Or, the art of mosquito and vector control.

A nameless character (X) is on a work trip through the post-apocalyptic environment of the housing crisis in the Mojave Desert. His job is to exterminate pests from the pools of foreclosed homes. On the road through this isolated region, everything from dragonflies to tarmac reminds him of Chelsea, his ex-girlfriend.

As the trip progresses, it becomes increasingly difficult to find any water. To make matters worse, he is losing contact with headquarters. The landscape he is passing through looks familiar. It is his life – empty, sad and isolated. Lovesick, he stops hunting for pests. He reflects on alternative ways of living and eventually finds himself in his own solitude.

This hybrid film fluidly crosses borders between fiction, documentary and essay. An impressionistic use of images, photos and narration reflects the narrator’s state of mind.

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Bastian Günther

Screenplay

  • Bastian Günther (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Michael Kotschi

Editing

  • Anne Fabini

Music

  • Howe Gelb

Cast

  • Jay Lewis
    Mann
  • Dan Peart
    Daniel C. Peart
  • Chelsea Williams
    Chelsea Williams

Production company

  • Indi Film GmbH (Stuttgart/Berlin)

Producer

  • Sonia Otto
  • Arek Gielnik
  • Dietmar Ratsch

Alle Credits

Director

  • Bastian Günther

Screenplay

  • Bastian Günther (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Michael Kotschi

Colour grading

  • Goran Mikic

Editing

  • Anne Fabini

Assistant editor

  • Kristin Olschewski

Sound design

  • Sebastian Tesch

Sound

  • Bastian Günther

Audio mixing

  • Ansgar Frerich

Music

  • Howe Gelb

Cast

  • Jay Lewis
    Mann
  • Dan Peart
    Daniel C. Peart
  • Chelsea Williams
    Chelsea Williams

Production company

  • Indi Film GmbH (Stuttgart/Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)

in association with

  • Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)

Producer

  • Arek Gielnik
  • Dietmar Ratsch
  • Sonia Otto

Producer (TV)

  • Doris Hepp

Unit production manager

  • Benjamin Cölle
  • Melanie Hillmann (USA)

Post-production

  • Sara Kriebel (Koordination)

Original distributor

  • Real Fiction Filmverleih (Köln)

Funding

  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)
  • Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film (Wiesbaden)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Media (Göttingen)
Duration:
84 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.07.2015, 153153, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.10.2014, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 20.08.2015

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) California City

Versions

Original

Duration:
84 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 23.07.2015, 153153, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 24.10.2014, Hof, Internationale Filmtage;
Kinostart (DE): 20.08.2015

Awards

Förderpreis für Filmkunst 2015
FBW 2014
  • Prädikat: wertvoll
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/california-city_