CULTURE TALK ON THE RADIO

DAS KULTURGESPRÄCH IM RADIO

Documentary, Experimental, Short, Other, hybrid: narrative + documentary, short art documentary, road movie

Germany

2022

Runtime, min

"Culture Talk on the Radio" is a hybrid, narrative and documentary, a road movie and also an art film and for the most part affectively a silent movie with some music. Then we only hear the conversation between the art critic Christoph Tannert and the well-known artist René Schoemakers coming from the speakers of a car radio. As for the road movie it is about a lonely truck driver who works for a company that specializes in the delivery of fruit and art. When the truck driver picks up a hitchhiker this interrupts his daily routine. For almost the whole time they listen to a radio program that just happens to be broadcast. Tannert is the presenter of the culture and arts program. The conversation is real and has not been scripted. Some of the things referred to during this conversation are taken up in the fictive part of the film. The film sequences become a silent movie once the radio has been turned on, allowing the content of the conversation about art to creep into the narrative and eventually gain equal footing with the power of the moving pictures.

Director:

Errkaa

Selections and Awards:

San Francisco Documentary Festival San Francisco June 1, 2023 North American Premiere Official Selection United States INCA IMPERIAL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Lima May 12, 2023 South American Premiere Official Selection Peru South Coast Film Festival Hastings August 20, 2023 England Premiere Official Selection United Kingdom World Premiere Film Awards Los Angeles, California October 31, 2023 Award: Winner Best Artwork United States Utopia Film Festival Greenbelt, Maryland October 21, 2023 Official Selection Best Documentary United States Oregon Documentary Film Festival Portland, Oregon October 12, 2023 Official Selection Best International Film United States International Road Movie Festival Pilsen October 21, 2023 Official Selection Best Documentary Czech Republic Festival International de Cinéma de Kinshasa Kinshasa October 20, 2023 African Premiere Official Selection Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Barrymore Film Center Short Film Festival Fort Lee, New Jersey October 14, 2023 Official Selection Best Short Film United States Art Film Awards Skopje June 16, 2023 Award: Winner Best Director Short Film Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of Indie Movies Spark Film Festival Utrecht May 3, 2023 Award: Winner Best Experimental / Art Film Netherlands Cinematic European Film Festival Craiova July 1, 2023 Award: Winner Best Supporting Actress Romania Ciudad del Este Independent Film Festival Ciudad del Este September 18, 2023 Official Selection Documentary Short Film Paraguay

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