Fata Morgana
Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the utterly monumental Fata Morgana. Shot in the Libyan desert and in an abandoned building in Lausitz, Germany, it features a man (Christian Schmidt), a woman (Giuliana Pachner, from Bellavista) - and, glimpsed now and again, a guide (Awad Elkish.) They talk, they fall silent. Winds blow. The sun shines. The camera runs. What gradually takes shape is nothing less than a painstakingly concentrated attempt to understand the human condition through the lens of cinema. A lofty ambition, and one that demands a considerable leap of faith on the part of the audience: this film is sedate, "difficult", challenging, often apparently impenetrable. But anyone who has seen Schreiner's previous films will be aware that he is by any standards a major artist, one that can be trusted to find places that other directors may not even suspect exist.
Year: 2013
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Peter Schreiner Filmproduktion (echt.zeit.film)
Director: Peter Schreiner
Cast: Giuliana Pachner, Christian Schmidt, Awad Elkish
Crew: Peter Schreiner (Director), Peter Schreiner (Cinematography), Peter Schreiner (Editor), Peter Schreiner (Idea), Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer (Music), Leo Schreiner (Sound Recordist)
Runtime: 140 minutes
Release: Jul 10, 2013
IMDb: 5.00/10 by 3 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Austria
Language: Deutsch
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : essay film
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