CONTINUITY
by Omer Fast
Germany 2012 41 min. original Version with English subtitles
tue 19 nov 10:15 pm Caligari FilmBühne
Script: Omer Fast, DoP: Bernhard Keller, Editor: Heike Parplies, Omer Fast,
Production: Filmgalerie 451, Producer: Irene von Alberti, Frieder Schlaich,
Cast: André M. Hennicke, Iris Böhm, Josef Mattes, Lukas Steltner, Niklas
Kohrt
A young German soldier returns to his parents’ house after serving in Afghanistan; the action repeats three times, with the soldier played by a different actor in each version.
CONTINUITY is the story of a family seeking to reconstruct their lost son’s return by hiring a series of male prostitutes. (production note
"Omer Fast’s creepy and incestuous CONTINUITY made me want to take a shower (the expert film follows a bourgeois German couple as they hire male escorts to enact the speculative homecoming of the son that they lost in Afghanistan)." (www.art-agenda.com)
Biography: Omer Fast, born in Jerusalem/Israel in 1972, holds a BA in English from Tufts University, a BFA in Visual Arts from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. Since finishing his studies in 2000, Fast has participated in over 150 international exhibitions in the world-wide most important museums, either in solo shows or with group projects. In 2008, Fast received the Bucksbaum Award at the Whitney Biennial in 2008 and also won the National Galerie’s Prize for Young Art in Berlin in 2009. His work is in several international collections including Tate Modern, the Guggenheim Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Centre Pompidou. (distributor note)
Filmography (selection): 2007 THE CASTING; DE GROTE BOODSCHAP, 2009 NOSTALGIA; TALK SHOW, 2011 5000 FEET IS THE BEST, 2012 CONTINUITY
Awards:Jury Award German Competition (International Short Film Festival Hamburg, Germany 2013), Lola in the category "films between 30 and 78 minutes" – Special Award (German Short Film Award, Berlin/Germany 2013)
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