Kurzfilm
Staging Death
Jan Soldat • AT/DE 2022 • 8min
DCP • de/enOF+en/frUT • Tirolpremiere
02.03.2023, 19:45 Leokino Double Feature mit PANKOW ‘95 • In presence of Jan Soldat • Reservation first possible by the end of February
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)
• Prelude of PANKOW 95
Director Jan Soldat • Cinematography Found Footage • Edit Jan Soldat
Jan Soldat was born 1984 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz), former GDR. 2006-2008 first short films at the SAEK (Sächsicher Ausbildungs- und Erprobungskanal) Chemnitz and within the Chemnitzer Filmwerkstatt e.V.. 2008-2014 studied film and television directing at the University of Film and Television Potsdam Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“. His more than 90 filmic and mostly documentary works to date deal with diverse sexual practices and body images. His favorite actors are Nicolas Cage, Udo Kier and Keanu Reeves. Otherwise he doesn‘t know much and likes to eat schnitzel. (Viennale)