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Universalovea film by Thomas Woschitz / Naked LunchFEATURE FILM | 2008 | A, LUX, SBR | 80 min | english, portuguese, serbian, french, japanese, luxembourgish | 1:1,85
UNIVERSALOVE is a global love story.
In Marseille, Julie's heart beats wildly when thinking of Rashid. In Tokyo, Satoshi dreams about his adored one who works in a soup restaurant but who doesn't even know who he is. In Rio de Janeiro, Maria falls for a Telenovela star. In Belgrade, acouple fight for their very existence. In Brooklyn, the thoughts of a black taxi driver lead him into the emotional abyss of jealous love. In Luxembourg, a well-settled gentleman finally comes around to showing his true feelings for a young man... Love happens. Love takes place. Strange love. True love. Crazy love. Desperate Love. Everywhere. Every moment.
Cast: Anica Dobra, Dušan Ašković, Damien Smith, Sri Gordon, Daniel Plier, Sascha Migge, Liza Machover, Samir „RPZ“ Menouar, Magda Gomes, Erom Cordeiro, Kyoichi Komoto, Makiko Kawai
Director: Thomas Woschitz / Naked LunchScreenplay: Thomas Woschitz, Andrea PivaCamera: Enzo BrandnerEditing: Thomas Woschitz, Frédéric FichefetMusic: Naked LunchSound: Carlo ThossProduction Management: Marie TapperoIn cooperation with: Zigafilm (Rio de Janeiro), Ribo ltd (Tokyo), Paradoxal Inc. (New York), Les Films du Présent (Marseille) Production: Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Pol Cruchten, Jeanne Geiben, Miroslav Mogorović Funding: Film fund Luxembourg, Filmfonds Wien, Innovative film austria - BMUKK, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Land Kärnten - Kultur, Republic of Serbia - Ministry of culture Worldsales: Films Boutique Distribution: Stadtkino (Austria), Neue Visionen (Germany) About the film by Thomas Edlinger
Mathematics in sociology tells us that love is “quite a normal improbability” (Niklas Luhmann). The spread of love in this world seems as balanced as it is coincidental. With Universalove Thomas Woschitz finds love in the cities of New York, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Marseille, Belgrade and Luxembourg. Urban spaces, stretching from roads in Brooklyn and dilapidated outskirts in Belgrade to tower blocks in Marseille and a sunlit beach in Rio, become cross points of desires in a world of magic realism, embedding the exceptional in everyday life. The film creates faces full of longing that have a becharming quality: the steady gaze of a young woman on a moped, for example, or the tender kiss, powerful enough to drown out everything that is around, given, like a redeeming gift, by a woman from the Rio favelas, during the shoot of a telenovela scene, to a TV star, engulfed by his own cynicism. With many close shots and subtle gestures, the film is about quiet dreams and frantic anger, love and getting hurt, strength and weakness. It is also about the play of closeness and distance, romance and tragedy, cheerfulness and death and about carrying on in relationships, which do not seem to end or get any better. UNIVERSALOVE is a global love story.
In Marseille, Julie's heart beats wildly when thinking of Rashid. In Tokyo, Satoshi dreams about his adored one who works in a soup restaurant but who doesn't even know who he is. In Rio de Janeiro, Maria falls for a Telenovela star. In Belgrade, acouple fight for their very existence. In Brooklyn, the thoughts of a black taxi driver lead him into the emotional abyss of jealous love. In Luxembourg, a well-settled gentleman finally comes around to showing his true feelings for a young man... Love happens. Love takes place. Strange love. True love. Crazy love. Desperate Love. Everywhere. Every moment.
Prizes:
MAX OPHÜLS PREIS 2009 - Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken (Germany) Jury-Begründung: Ein Film, der in Marseille spielt, in Brasilien, Belgrad, Tokio, Luxemburg und New York. Thomas Woschitz nimmt uns in „Universalove“ mit auf eine große Reise und wirft an allen Schauplätzen einen lebensklugen Blick auf die Liebe, auf die Verwirrungen, die Verrücktheiten und Vergeblichkeiten der Liebe. Eine atemlose, vibrierende Odyssee zur Musik von Naked Lunch, die kein geschmacksverstärkender Soundtrack ist, sondern eine Hauptrolle spielt. Thomas Woschitz entwickelt in seinem virtuos verschränkten Episodenfilm aus der Ästhetik der Musikvideos eine junge, eigensinnige Erzählweise. Jeder seiner Figuren schenkt er einen je eigenen Bilderkosmos, einen eigenen Rhythmus, eine eigene Atmosphäre. Und am Ende hältdie Welt vor lauter Liebe für einen Augenblick den Atem an.
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY FEATURE FILM 2008/09 - Diagonale09, Graz (Austria)
Jury-Begründung:
Thomas-Pluch-Drehbuchförderpreis 2010 (Austria) Festivals: World premiere: Toronto International Film Festival (Canada) 04.09.2008 - 13.09.2008 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - Montreal (Canada) 08.10.2008 - 19.10.2008 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis - Saarbrücken (Germany) 26.01.2009 - 01.02.2009 Berlinale - Perspektive Deutsches Kino (Germany) 05.02.2009 - 15.02.2009 Miami International Film Festival (USA) 06.03.2009 - 15.03.2009 !f Istanbul Independant Film Festival (Turkey) 12.02.2009 - 22.02.2009 Diagonale09 - Graz (Austria) 17.03.2009 - 22.03.2009 Crossing Europe - Linz (Austria) 20.04.2009 - 26.04.2009 UGC FETE L’EUROPE - Brussels (Belgium) 09.05.2009 San Joaquin International Film Festival - San Joaquin (USA) 14.05.2009 - 23.05.2009 Jecheon International Music & Film Festival - (South Korea) 13.08.2009 - 18.08.2009 FilmFestival Cottbus (Germany) 10.11.2009 - 15.11.2009 exposed filmfestival/Blickpunkt - Cologne (Germany) 20.11.2009 Festival de cinéma Du grain à démoudre - Gonfreville l’Orcher (France) 20.11.2009 - 29.11.2009 Trieste Film Festval (Italy) 21.01.2010 - 28.01.2010 Internationales FIlmwochenende Wurzburg (Germany) 27.01.2010 - 31.01.2010 Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (USA) 04.03.2010 - 07.03.2010 Festival International du Film d'Aubagne (France) 15.03.2010 - 20.03.2010
Casa del Parco, Torino (Italy) 16.06.2011 Filmfest Milans (Switzerland) 25.06.2011
LIVE SCREENINGS 01.10.2010 Teatro Olimpico - Roma (Italy) 30.09.2010 KINO ŠIŠKA - Ljubljana (Slovenia) 04.03.2010 Chicago International Movies and Music Festival (USA) - Opening night 28.01.2010 Trieste Film Festival (Italy) 26.01.2010 Posthalle - Würzburg (Germany) 25.01.2010 NaTo - Leipzig (Germany) 24.01.2010 Kampnagel - Hamburg (Germany) 22.01.2010 Volksbühne - Berlin (Germany) 01.11.2009 Landestheater Linz (Kammerspiele) (Austria) 25.09.2009 Das Haus - Ludwigshafen (Germany) 24.09.2009 Palace - St. Gallen (Switzerland) 23.09.2009 Treibhaus - Luzern (Switzerland) 22.08.2009 Arena Open Air - Vienna (Austria) 21.08.2009 Moviemento Open Air - Linz (Austria) 19.08.2009 Burghof Open Air - Klagenfurt (Austria) 16.08.2009 Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (South Korea) 07.05.2009 Spielboden - Dornbir (Austria) 06.05.2009 Leo Kino - Innsbruck (Austria) 17.04.2009 Gartenbaukino - Vienna (Austria) 19.03.2009 Diagonale - Graz (Austria) 30.01.2009 Max Ophüls Festival Saarbrücken (Germany)
(Right-click and "Save As...") THOMAS WOSCHITZ
Born 1968 in Klagenfurt. Studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome/Italy. Directed several shortfilms, e.g. “People’s Pockets and Bleeding Noses” (1995) and “Blindgänger - Duds” (1996) and the medium lengh film “Girls and Cars (2004) which have all been shown at numerous festivals, such as Venice, Locarno and the Cannes Film Festival. He also realized experimental film-installations like “Oil Film” (1994) and “Loop’s End (2003) or the imaginary sound film “ moving landscape© (2002)“. Together with the music band “Naked Lunch” he realized 2005 the music/film “Closing Time”. And he has worked as a a filmeditor on “La Capa Gira” and "Mio Cognato", both by Alessandro Piva. He’s now working on his new music film "Universalove" and on a first feature film „The Robbers – Reloaded“.
NAKED LUNCH
Naked Lunch are: Oliver Welter | singer, guitar Herwig Zamernig | bass Stefan Deisenberger | keyboards, electronics Alex Jezdinsky | drums Since the 1991 debut release under the German label “Big Store”, they had a number of highly app¬raised follow up releases in Europe and the USA, as well as stage performances in the whole of Europe, the US, South America and Russia. In the same period, all members also composed for various theatres, films and works for other artists. Film Music 1996 - 2004 Josef Trilogy 2005 Until Death (TV) 2006 Earth Movements (TV) 2007 Franz Fuchs – A Patriot (TV) 2007 Love and Other Crimes Releases 1991 Naked Lunch CD/LP - ‚Nakedʻ 1992 Naked Lunch CD/LP - ,Balsamʻ 1997 Naked Lunch CD/LP - ,Superstardomʻ 1999 Naked Lunch CD/LP - ,Love Junkiesʻ 2004 Naked Lunch CD/LP - ,Songs for the Exhaustedʻ 2004 Naked Lunch/Thomas Woschitz DVD ,Closing Timeʻ 2007 Naked Lunch CD/LP - ,This Atom Heart of Oursʻ www.universalove.com © KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production, Red Lion, donaufestival.at, Art & Popcorn ![]() |