Hallo, mit Unterstützung von AG-Kurzfilm und German Films flieg ich am 23. November nach Kyoto, Japan.
Sehr Cool. Freue mich.
Das "Kyoto International Student Film & Video Festival 2008" zeigt in einem Grand Prix zwölf ausgewählte Kurzfilme, darunter "Alles bleibt...".
Bin mal gespannt...

Werde einen ausergewöhnlichen, unglaublichen wundervollen Reisebericht schreiben...
mehr dazu später...

schöne grüße an alle

chris

p.s. musste schon ein paar kleine Fragen für den Katalog beantworten und will sie euch nicht vorenthalten...
viel spaß

1)What made you start making films in a first place?
a films? or a book? or a person?
2)What is your favorite film ? or who is your favorite film director?
and why?

I think watching films... When i was 14 till 19 i was very fascinated on horrorfilms...
I tried to watch everything from „Hellraiser“ to „Braindead“ to
„Guinea Pig“ by Satoru Ogura.

This was the first time I watched Shinya Tsukamotos „Tetsuo“ and i loved it...
He had a very unique filmstyle at this time, - ten years ago - ...
he inspired me with his incridiply camera and editting work in „Tetsuo“ to do films, to love the camera, to love the power of the picture...
but also to love strange, powerfull cinema like Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowski, Cronenberg and for example also the work of Matthew Barney and the wonderfull american photographer Gregory Crewdson...

Of course i also liked the small japanese Film „Kichiku dai enkai“ from Kazuyoshi Kumakiri... For this time, i think it was 2001 the film was very controversal and i realy liked the camera work and the dancing parts with the wonderfull soundscene..

This film for example inspired me to make my first colour experimental shortfilm „Love“ in my second year 2002 on the german filmschool FH-Dortmund.

Link to the shortfilm „Love“: http://kichiku.blip.tv/#165311

3)Please give discriptions of your film "The family keeps It all",
What is the theme and concept of this work?
What do you want to tell to the audience?
Where was this work conceived from?

Theme:
The intact - from the mother longed-for but arduously hold together - ideal
world breaks into its pieces when her fifteen years old son has placed an
obituary in the local newspaper. His parents neither note nor understand his
suptle cry of "help". So the disaster culminates in a conflict between
father and son, while the mother lonely fights a struggle against herself.

The concept was to do a shortfilm which tells the story with the pictures.
I´m a cinematographer and this was my first fiction shortfilm i also directed. The work of the american Photographer Gregory Crewdson also inspired me, because he tells a hole story in just one picture. Wonderfull. I hope he would like the film...
Also the sentence
" Childhood was always a place full of danger, you seldom come off unscathed. "
from Katharina Ohara, a writer,
inspired me to write a small story, with locations i knew from my childhood, mixed with Grewdson, a little bit Lynch and my fantasy.
A small sad shortfilm, i hope... have fun...

What did you feel when you knew your work was selected?
about being screened ahead of many Japanese people in KISFVF.

I was very happy, i grow up with many japanese strange films... i was inspired by Tsukamotos „Tetsuo“ or „ Rokugatsu no hebi aka Snake of a June“, i was schocked by
„Kichiku dai enkai aka Kichiku“ from Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and i really loved Takashi Miikes „ Bijitâ Q aka Visitor Q“.
Im very interested in your contry, people and culture and i decited to visit KISFVF 08.
I hope you will like the film...

Please visit my homepage: www.kichiku.blip.tv

Thanks and by

Chris