Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers To Follow 2016 / Wald der Echos / Austria 2016
Christina loses her friends while playing a game in the woods. When she goes to look for them she finds the bodies of three drowned girls. Sometime later (or perhaps earlier?) the three girls are playing by the water and they find the body of Christina, drowned. Trying to describe Forest of Echoes is futile; it must be experienced. The admixture of childlike imagination, death, and the timelessness of summer tempt us into the woods, where the dead and the living are one.
Christina loses her friends while playing a game in the woods. When she goes to look for them she finds the bodies of three drowned girls. Sometime later (or perhaps earlier?) the three girls are playing by the water and they find the body of Christina, drowned. They attend to the body with childlike insouciance. In order for her spirit to find peace they must carry out a variety of rituals – that is, if she’s really dead. Trying to describe Forest of Echoes is futile; it must be experienced. The admixture of childlike imagination, naïveté, death, and the timeless summer atmosphere tempt the viewer into the woods, where the dead and the living are one.
Anna Kořínek
30 min / Color, DCP
International premiere
Director Luz Olivares Capelle
/ Screenplay Luz Olivares Capelle
/ Dir. of Photography Sebastian Thaler, Lászlo Váncsá, Gabriel Krajanek
/ Music Rudolf Pototschnig
/ Editor Lászlo Váncsá
/ Art Director Ina Chrudina, Almasa Jerlagic
/ Producer L. Olivares Capelle, J. Grummer, S. Kato, S. Thaler, L. Váncsá
/ Production Filmakademie Wien
/ Cast Jasmin Wallner, Calista Berger, Katharina Plaim, Christina Kasper
/ Sales sixpackfilm
/ Contact Austrian Films
Luz Olivares Capelle (b. 1983, Rufino, Argentina) studied direction in 2005–08 at the National School of Film Experimentation and Production (ENERC) in Buenos Aires. She continued her coursework at Filmacademy Vienna, studying under renowned filmmakers such as Abbas Kiarostami. In 2015 she completed a course in Michael Haneke’s workshop. She also studied drawing and graphics in Vienna with Gunter Damisch.
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