A meandering camera in an abandoned ice rink, a surface of frozen water that extends embodiment in time. The sounds of leaves rustling, birds and an ominous, buzzing silence accompany a tracking shot that drifts through the scene. “Stupor” draws a portrait of those who frequent this place and questions different points of view: danger frozen in time, moments before an action happens. Between immediacy and illusion, the audience observes “something about to happen,” shifting between the expectation of a traumatizing event and its disappointment.

WHO

author, director & editor LEONIE KELLEIN voice over CHENGXI ZHONG director assistant TANITA OLBRICH 2nd AD LISA HOPPE camera JAKOB REINHARDT camera operator JAKOB GRASBÖCK 1st AC MARCO MÜLLER 2nd AC KLEMENTINE MEDVED key grip ice FARES HAMADE gaffer THIES LEHMANN best boy PHILIPP BARTH electricians MUSSA SECKA, ALEXANDER EHLERS sound recording JOSEPHA IMMLER set design SASKIA STOLZE styling ANTHOULA BOURNA choreographer DOROTHEA RATZEL catering NINA PLAZONJA, LISA LOWITSCH-GRAMSE set manager HENRIK LANDSCHOOF, TOBIAS DUFFNER parrot wrangler BIRGIT STACHE

dramaturgy BIRGIT GLOMBITZA music GAIA HEICHAL sound design TOURISZT sound mix PATRICK DADACZYNSKI colors BENJAMIN PACKER title design STEFFEN GOLDKAMP producers JULIA CÖLLEN, FRANK SCHEUFFELE, KARSTEN KRAUSE

funded by MOIN FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN, BKM - BEAUFTRAGTE DER BUNDESREGIERUNG FÜR KULTUR UND MEDIEN

short film
16 minutes | Germany 2024

with

AMIN MONTALLEBZADEH, ANNALENA GRIMM, ENNO GERHARDT, EVELYNE BERTELMANN, IRINI ARAVIDOU, JOELLE ROSE, KERSTIN KLETT, MARLON WEBER, MATEO DUKAS, MERNOUSH SHARIFI, NIKOLOZ MAMATSASHVILI, OLEG ISAKOV, TIMOLEON PAPADOPOULOS, VANGELIS DUKAS, VLADIMIR VULEVIC

ALEXANDER WOERMANN, FLORIAN DEEG, MELINA KAMOU, MERVAN ÜRKMEZ, STEFAN WIRBLAT, TILMAN JUNGHANS

ALEXANDER ROTH, JULIUS HÖLLWARTH, LARISSA PASCHE, MARKUS GÖING, PETER NEUMANN, SERGEJ RADOWSKI, SIMON BEYRAU, TOBIAS KREUTE, TOBIAS WAZERI

SCREENINGS

KKF Kurzfilmfestival Köln (world premiere)