EISENBERGER - Kunst muss schön sein, sagt der Frosch zur Fliege
in den österr. Kinos
Breathing life into stone
DE 2018, 79 min, Katinka Zeuner
A circus wagon and a shipping container serve as stonemason Michael Spengler’s workshop. It is here that he receives people in mourning. Together they design headstones that tell of the deceased.
Mr. and Mrs. Neustadt have lost their two-year-old son. Through their dialogue with Michael they find the words to express their emotions, words that become form and substance—their child’s breath is to be represented in a fragile limestone. Hardburg Stolle is a woman of few words, through Michael’s guidance she dauntlessly swings the hammer that splits a boulder and feels a sense of strength that had been long buried. The Jacob family searches for the essence of their grandfather’s life: lover of nature, bon vivant, patriarch. What should an object that encapsulates him look like? Michael approaches the material and the people with great sensitivity and accompanies each family on a process that often takes months, one decision at a time.
The film tells the story of this difficult and intimate process and shows how working on the stone makes death concrete in the truest sense of the word. As the stone takes on its form, the families discover a new relationship with the deceased—and to life.
festivals
DOK Leipzig 2018, DE | Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE
awards
ver.di Award (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Honorable Mention Goethe-Institute (DOK Leipzig 2018, DE) | Ecumenical Award (Achtung Berlin Film Festival 2019, DE)
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20.9., 18:30 KIZ Royalkino, Graz
21.9., 20:00 Urania, Wien
22.9., 13:00 Filmhaus, Wien
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FESTIVALS
ARE YOU SLEEPING, BROTHER JAKOB?
will be screened at
Dolomitale, IT 2019
8:30 pm, 21st September
CineEco Film Festival, PT 2019
12th - 19th October
EISENBERGER - Art must be beautiful, as the frog says to the fly
will be screened at
Dolomitale, IT 2019
8:30 pm, 22st September
UNA PRIMAVERA
will be screened at
Zurich Film Festival, CH 2019
6.30 pm, 27th September
3.45 pm, 29th September
6.45 pm, 4th October
3.15 pm, 6th October
Reykjavik Int. Film Festival, IS 2019
1.00 pm, 29th September
7.15 pm, 1st October
7.00 pm, 6th October
Women Make Waves FF, TW 2019
10.50 pm, 6th October
11.00 pm, 9th October
10.30 pm, 11th October
Astra Film Festival, RO 2019
14th - 20th October
CHILDREN BELOW DECK
will be screened at
Nuremberg Int. Human Rights FF, DE 2019
1.30 pm, 5th October
6.30 pm, 9th October
won Best Sociopolitical Documentary Award
at Beyond Borders Film Festival!
KINDERS
will be screened at
Beholders Film Festival, NL 2019
3.00 pm, 12th October
3.00 pm, 13th October
STUTTERING
will be screened at
Beholders Film Festival, NL 2019
4.30 pm, 12th October
4.00 pm, 13th October