ALEJANDRO ASTAR is THE ENTERTAINER
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ALEJANDRO ASTAR is THE ENTERTAINER
ALEJANDRO ASTAR is THE ENTERTAINER A Academy of Media Arts Cologne Production Kontakt Telefon: 0221- 0000000 Mobil: 0176-206 41 253 Mail: [email protected] Nobody knows the trouble I've seen nobody knows my sorrow nobody knows the trouble I've seen glory hallelujah PROJECT INFORMATION Project titel....................................The Entertainer Genre...........................................Tragicomedy/Short Runtime.........................................15 minutes Format..........................................HD/16:9 Location.........................................Cologne Shooting period.................................03.-07.April 2013 Scriptwriter & Director........................Bastian Klügel D.O.P...........................................Christian Kochmann Finishing........................................Summer 2013 Mentoring.......................................Prof. Didi Danquart This short film is produced within the academy’s course of advanced studies. The project is supported not only by Prof. Didi Danquart’s mentoring, but also with professional camera and lighting equipment. Behind the scenes a team of freelancers and students attending film-, music-, and media arts colleges are working together on this project. All of them are working for free and are joined together through their passion for filmmaking. “The Entertainer” is to be screened on national and international film festivals. Me and my shadow strolling down the avenue me and my shadow not a soul to tell our troubles to just me and my shadow all alone and feeling blue CONTENT SYNOPSIS Street musician and entertainer Alejandro Astar gets a fateful offer: He is supposed to sing during a casting for a big cinema production. Alejandro scents his chance of a late career and the big money. But as he cannot get rid of his drinking problem and choleric nature he screws up everything. During the casting he loses control... Bild: www.kinoinfrechen.de Abstract Alejandro Astar, 43, passionate entertainer, Clark Gable moustache, pinstripe-suited, with patent leather shoes, keeps spending the little money he earns on booze. Even Frank, his manager, owner of his temporary den in an old bowling alley in the cellar of his pub, the „Dünnwalder Treff“ and his keyboarder, can't change him. But one day Frank gets a call from a casting agent, asking Alejandro to prepare for an audition for a big movie production. Hans, the bass player, warns Alejandro not to take the offer. But Alejandro smells the chance of a late career and the big money, which, however, is no reason for him to change his lifestyle: He joins the audition drunk and messes up the whole evening, losing control of himself and dying of a heart attack. That's how the story ends, isn't it? There'll be some changes made there'll be a change in the weather a change in the sea from now on there'll be a change in me my walk will be different my talk and my name nothing bout me's gonna be the same Bild: www.kinoinfrechen.de Style In surrealistic and exaggerated episodes, the movie tells the story of the strange friendship of its protagonists and their love of music. It shows the spiritual abyss of a singer, who is being perceived as a freak. It is told in between space and time. It is somnolent and totally hyped up. Like life, it is screamingly funny, incomprehensible, unpredictable, and sometimes dull, sad and traumatic. Music Music is a constant companion, object of projection and Alejandro’s passion. Modelled after the music of the 20s and 30s, it plays a leading part in this movie. Songs like Me and my shadow, I'll se you in my dreams and There'll be some changes made are going to be performed live with minimal instrumentation by the main cast and are going to guide through the movie. In addition an orchestrated version of the songs is to be recorded after the shooting. BEHIND THE SCENES Bastian Klügel, Buch & Regie Christian Kochmann, Kamera Geb. 1986 in Friedberg/Bayern - 2007 Praktikum als Assistent der Geschäftsleitung bei der Hofmann & Voges Entertaiment GmbH anschließend Volontariat als Produktionstassistent - 2008 Regie-Hospitanz am Stadttheater Augsburg – seit 2009 Studium der medialen Künste (Film- und Fernsehregie) an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln - 2010 Gründung der payapix Filmproduktion Klügel & Reichel GbR - 2011 2. Regieassistenz bei Produktionen der Bavaria Filmproduktion (Soko Stuttgart; Regie: Didi Danquart) und der ColoniaMedia (Tatort Köln; Regie: Andreas Kleinert) geb. 1984 in Atlanta/USA – seit 2006 Kameraassistent, später EBKameramann für Nachrichten und Reportage Formate der privaten und öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehanstalten u.a. WDR, RTL und Pro7 in Köln – seit 2009 Studium der medialen Künste (Fachbereich:künstlerische Bildgestaltung/Kamera) an der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln / selbstständiger Kameramann und Beleuchter für TV,-Image & Werbeflm Produktionen SCHLEUSENWÄRTER PRIEL 2009/ Kurzfilm / 08 Min / HDV MONDNACHT 2010 / Kurzfilm / 05 min / HD / KHM KILLING FOR IDENTITY 2011 / Fashionfilm / 03 min / HD HERR ANDERS 2012 / Kurzfilm / 07 min / HD / KHM VIELFALT IST... (3 Staffeln) 2012 / Doku-Portrait-Reihe WDR / 17 x 01 min / HD / payapix FIRST GUTTER 2010 / Kurzfilm / 03 min / S-16mm / Farbe MARIAMA – CHANGE WITH THE SEASONS 2011 /Musik-Clip / 04 min / HD / Farbe & s/w AVENTÜRE 2011 / Kurzfilm / 22 min / HD / Farbe VERSORGER 2012 / Dokumentarfilm / 18 min / S-16mm / s/w VIELFALT IST... ( 3 Staffeln) 2012 / Doku-Portrait-Reihe WDR / 17 x 01 min / HD / payapix