Film Programme

MONDAY
fiction
Germany, 2010, 18'45
Director: Christian Bäucker
Producer: Christian Bäucker
Director of photography: Maurice Wilkerling
Writer: Christian Bäucker
Composer: Christian Obermaier
Editor: Christian Bäucker
Synopsis: The characters of this film, narrated in real time, are individuals, who cannot escape their tacit loneliness. The option of distracting himself, which drives the protagonist in front of the PC, out of still despair that is, remains an ironic parantheses. It is Monday and his two visitors have left the weekend’s parties behind, dissatisfied. This is the starting point for sensing each other, searching for weak points but also accessibility of the other. Longing is being masked with defence, feelings with macho gestures. The quest for physical proximity oscillates between aggressive eroticism and violence. Behind coolness lurks impotence. The encounter might still succeed, a true closeness might arise, slowly they are feeling their ways. Yet the awakening leads to a steep break-off of this possibility. Both of them disappear on their own futile quest. Left behind remains the irony of the events.
Director: Christian Bäucker
in 1980 born in Eisenhüttenstadt 2005 study Art and Media on the UdK Berlin