• THE SALPA–TALES
      AN EXPERIMENTAL FILM-CYCLE EVOLVING
      AROUND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY
  • TRAILER
      NIGHT AND DAY
  • OILFIELDS
      AN EXPERIMENTAL ROADMOVIE
      A COLLECTIVELY WRITTEN STRASSENFILM
  • MINES
      A PORTMANTEAU ROAD MOVIE FOLLOWING
      THE MEANDERINGS OF SALPA, A HUMAN BEING
      WITH A FISH ON THE CHIN.
  • HURRICANES
      OILFIELDS MINES HURRICANES is a road-movie, in which the classical concept of that genre – the quest for and the fixation of the own identity – is lead ad absurdum: Salpa, the traveler, experiences a corrosion of his all-along-multiple identity. This is already founded within the production: 18 authors have taken turns writing the screenplay. The amount and sequence of the scenes correlate with John Cage’s organ piece As Slow As Possible. The performance venue of that piece, Halberstadt, is the apparent destination of Salpa’s journey. But, arrived, no redemption is waiting; Salpa again finds himself thrown back onto himself and alone.
      For Salpa’s journey each author depicts another fragmented world for him to dive in, and each of them poses him, always confused & disorientated but determined, with the question of his own identity. The further he gets away from the beginning, the more the destination seems to fade away. Estranged Salpa floats through different possibility-worlds, which don’t provide the right answer for his questions, who he is, what is left of him and what he has lost within himself along with the loss of the other.
      Is Salpa like a migratory bird in an invisible flock, or someone reflecting the relations to his father? Which gender does Salpa claim? What is ascribed to him? What does define him without the other?
      We experience Salpa’s tale through non-stringent and non-causal narrations which unfold web-like over the whole movie: Salpa is constantly looking for contact with his surrounding, fails and enmeshes himself deeper and deeper in his identity which is more and more under deconstruction.
      Salpa’s companion is a salp, a primitive fish, which Salpa is carrying as a prosthesis on his lower face. The origin of his prosthesis he finds in Iceland, where to he followed a mysterious tale of a flock of birds, which froze to death in the air and dropped on the glacier. During the movie Salpa is testing the possibility of a symbiosis with the prosthesis entrapping himself in more than one discourse around his seemingly lost place in the world. The salp takes one different roles and functions: It serves as a idealistic dialogue-partner, as a connection-tool to the outside, as an alter-ego and as a clumsy chauffeur on the trip which the two have embarked on together. The destination is unknown, but something pushes them forward, maybe the dark pitches, which are omnipresent below the surface, or Salpa's voice from the car-radio? And who gets homesick while watching a maritime documentary, Salpa or the fish?
      Salpa, the seeker, is a metaphor for the loss of a world, for a destination gone missing without the end of the quest for it.






  • CREDITS
      A collective project by the SCHULDENBERG FOUNDATION

      Written by FABIAN ALTENRIED, MORITZ ALTENRIED/HANNE BOHMHAMMEL, CLAUDIA BARTH/WANDA KOLLER, SAMUEL ESCHMANN, HENNING FEHR/PHILIPP RÜHR, LEE FÜKKE, KRISTOF GEREGA, PHILIPP GUHR, ANNE-KATHRIN HEIER, DAENG KHAMLAO, MAREIKE LISKER, SANDRA MAN, RITA MCBRIDE, OCTAVE PERO, SEBASTIAN SEIDLER

      Starring KRISTOF GEREGA as Salpa
      Also starring RÚNAR LUND

      Directed by FABIAN ALTENRIED
      Director of photography SMINA BLUTH
      Sound-recordist & Script-supervisor DINAH ROTHENBERG
      Assitant directors MORITZ ALTENRIED/HANNE BOHMHAMMEL,
      CLAUDIA BARTH/WANDA KOLLER, KRISTOF GEREGA, MAREIKE LISKER
      Additional photography by FABIAN ALTENRIED

      Produced by BILDUNDTONFABRIK, SCHULDENBERG FILMS
      Producers FABIAN ALTENRIED, KRISTOF GEREGA, PHILIPP KÄSSBOHRER
      Production team: SANJA PIJANOVIC, MARTIN BORCHERS, LEA GAMULA, HANNA ZIMMERMANN

      Edited by the SCHULDENBERG FOUNDATION
      Score composed by VICTOR TRICARD
      Sound design by FABIAN ALTENRIED
      Color-grading by MATTHIAS SCHULZ
      Compositor JULIAN SCHLEEF
      Mixing engineer ALEXANDER WERTH
      Additional on-screen-editing DAENG KHAMLAO
      Special-Makeup-FX CAPTNCLOWN COLOGNE

      Speical thanks to FRANZISKA VESELY

      Shot at SNÆFELLSJÖKULL/REYKJAVÍK/REYNISFJARA/BORGANES, ICELAND
      And ON THE WAY TO HALBERSTADT, GERMANY






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      11th FRESH FILM FEST PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
      in the BREAK RULES section
      Screening: 17th of September 2014

      NEW HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
      WROCŁAW, POLAND
      in the PANORAMA section
      Screenings: 28th of July & 3rd of August 2014

      43rd INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
      WORLD PREMIERE: 28th of January 2014
      presented in the BRIGHT FUTURE section

      ANATUM’S ABODE, London, UK
      Screening | 28th of February

      KUNSTAKADEMIE DÜSSELDORF, Düsseldorf, Germany
      Screening | 11th of February


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      PILGRIM AGE
      Filmfragments & readings from THE SALPA-TALES

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      Filmfragments as a part of the group-exhibition Erkenntnis
      24th of January - 8th of February 2014
      M29 GALLERY, Moltkestraße 29a, COLOGNE

      ROOM ONE
      Filmfragments and objects as a part of
      WILD HORSES & TROJAN DREAMS
      18th of December 2013 –  5th of January 2014
      MARRES, Maastricht, Netherlands




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      VIBILIA ARMATA
      A small hyperid amphipod that lives as a parasitoid
      in the tunicate of the salp. A parasitoid is an obligate associate, which eventually kills its host at the end
      of its development.
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