SATURN RETURNS
91 minutes, 2009
Lucy, a privileged white North American in 2008 Berlin, living a life of post-Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters Galia, a brown young Israeli who lures Lucy with a promise of a better, more austere way of living. A homage to Punk underground trash films turns into a cynical melodrama.
PRESS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY:
FilmDienst
Tageszeitung Berlin
Cine Clandestino / Raffaele Meale
Film.it / Stefano Milano
“BEST FEATURE” - Berlin Award - Achtung Film Festival 2010
Nominated to the Max Ophüs Preis (Germany)
Torino Film Festival - “Onde” Section Opening Film
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Spectacle Theater NYC
Las Palmas Film Festival
SteakCinema Seoul
Credits:
Directed by Lior Shamriz
Written by Lior Shamriz and Imri Kahn
Performers: Chloé Griffin, Tal Meiri, Joshua Bogle, Heinz Emigholz
3 experimental “satellite films” were created to accompany the picture in total length of 180 minutes: “Ritenuto”, “Titan” and “Return Return” which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival 2010.
RETURN RETURN is a mashup between an audiotext work by Caroline Bergvall, “VIA (48 Dante Translations)”, and a slowed-down version of the trailer to the feature-length fiction film Saturn Returns. Twenty-six minutes long, it is comprised of only one digested minute of footage from the original film, accompanying the story’s three main performers: Tal Meiri, Chloe Griffin, and Joshua Bogle. The secondary medium – the trailer – becomes the only source.
RITENUTO is a slowed-down clip of a dream scene from the film Saturn Returns (one minute slowed down to 63 minutes), accompanied by a soundtrack of a mixtape with pop songs and some classical music pieces.
In TITAN, Imri Kahn reads two chapters from Kurt Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan: In a Hollywood Nightclub, A Puzzle Solved. Accompanying his reading are internet-available images from the satellite and its planet Saturn.