[sixpackfilm] STAGING DEATH by Jan Soldat - Quinzaine des réalisateurs || Directors' Fortnight - Cannes 2022 - screening dates

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Staging Death

A film by Jan Soldat

Austria/ Germany 2022, DCP, 8 min


 
Screening dates/ venues:

Wednesday, May 25th 2022, 14:15, Théâtre Croisette

Thursday, May 26th 2022, 12:00, Cinéma Olympia / Salle 8

Thursday, May 26th 2022, 19:00, Cinéma Alexandre III

 
Udo Kier dies his way through film history. He screams, falls, lies, is chopped up, shot or takes his own life. Again and again his empty gaze, again and again his rigid body. In 54 years of acting career Udo Kier played in more than 170 feature films, 120 series episodes and 50 short films. More than 70 times Udo Kier tried to give an expression to dying and death. In Staging Death these representations of death merge into a montage of the most diverse shot sizes, film formats, special effects and sound designs. European auteur cinema, Hollywood blockbuster, independent trash, art installation, television film, commercial, music video and children's series: in Udo Kier's oeuvre, everything becomes one. In this sense, "Staging Death" also moves between document, essay, found footage, supercut and Youtube clip. (production note, Jan Soldat)



“Kier's highly individual performances ooze an idiosyncratic physicality that is at its clearest, purest, and most beautiful in the moments of his on-screen death. His legendary blue eyes are sometimes open, sometimes closed, his mouth wide open for one final scream, sometimes distorted in pain, sometimes smiling almost peacefully. The body, not quite yet a corpse, twitches or rests or is shot at and torn apart. With each blink of an eye, another new cosmos opens up in Jan Soldat’s artistically playful condensation of this unprecedented career. Each individual film, through its texture and atmosphere, suggests different production values and contexts: from auteur films to video store fodder, from sexploitation to children’s TV shows, from blockbusters to the avant-garde.” (Markus Keuschnigg)

 
For further info on Staging Death and downloads please go to our catalogue –––> <https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2784/>  

 
Jan Soldat: Born in 1984 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz), former GDR.
His over 90 mostly documentary works to date deal with the depiction of diverse sexual practices and preferences. 

––> jansoldat.com <http://jansoldat.com/>
 
Jan Soldat and Dietmar Schwärzler (sixpackfilm) will be present during the festival in Cannes.

 
Contact details:

Dietmar Schwärzler: dietmar at sixpackfilm.com <mailto:dietmar at sixpackfilm.com>; +43 650 901 87 32 / May 24th to 26th

Jan Soldat (via dietmar at sixpackfilm.com <mailto:dietmar at sixpackfilm.com>); May 24th to 28th



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