Astrid Menzel was born in 1985 in Hamburg, Germany. During her time at school she adored being on stage participating in theatre, choir musicals and tap dance shows. Her debut short film UNLIKE TODAY screened at international film festivals and won numerous awards, such as the Golden Horseman at the Filmfest Dresden. BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS is her feature length debut. It premiered at DOK Leipzig and took home the Young Eyes Film Award. Currently she is writing her fiction feature debut “CELLOPHANE” (WT), a love triangle Drama.
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Current AARK resident and filmmaker Astrid Menzel is looking for participants to film her latest work.
Astrid is looking for a group of engaged people open to work with her. No prior artistic experience is needed.
The video shoot will take place in the Korppoo Area from 27-29th of March. Not everyone is needed the whole time.
Participants will receive video footage or possibly also photos for their own use and a little financial compensation as well as the reimbursement of their travel costs.
Looking for people of different ages to form a family in front of the camera:
Two siblings (14-30 years old)
A mother (20-36 years old) with her little baby (0-9 month)
One man (50-70 years old)
One woman (50-70 years old)
One "very old" person (around 80)
Astrid intends to capture a specific mood from a family reunion, that she encountered herself some years back, when her grandfather passed away. The family has never been closer than during that time "waiting for death to happen". The final result will be a video art exhibition about the Cycle of Life, shown in Bremen, Germany and hopefully also in the Archipelago Area. The project is a collaboration with the Finnish sound artist Jaakko Autio, another former AARK resident.
These are the drawings of the three planned videos:
A mother sitting on the bathroom floor, massaging her new-born baby, capturing the closeness between mother and baby.
While an old man is lying in bed in the bedroom next door, having trouble breathing.
A group of people is happily playing cards in the dim light. A family united in an isolated cabin.
About Astrid
Astrid Menzel by Christian Burmester
Astrid Menzel was born in 1985 in Hamburg, Germany. During her time at school she adored being on stage participating in theatre, choir musicals and tap dance shows. Once graduated from high school, she enrolled in her first film assignment as a Production Assistant for a French-Portuguese film production in Lisbon. Eventually beginning her film studies at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Lisbon. Three years later, she graduated with a degree in Directing & Editing. After working on set of NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON alongside the danish director Bille August, she moved to Berlin, where she persued her career, working as an assistant director for feature films and TV-Productions. Her debut short film UNLIKE TODAY screened at international film festivals and won numerous awards, such as the Golden Horseman at the Filmfest Dresden. BLUE SKY WHITE CLOUDS is her feature length debut. It premiered at DOK Leipzig and took home the Young Eyes Film Award. The film was theatrically released in Germany in 2023. Menzel writes and directs her films herself. For her documentary, she also handled the camera, the original sound and part of the editing. Currently she is writing her fiction feature debut “CELLOPHANE” (WT), a love triangle Drama.
Astrid Menzel, together with Skärgårdscenturm Korpoström, are organising the Art and Artists event, where local and international artists can meet and get to know each other and each others' work. The event is open to everyone, not just those who consider themselves artists, and is a great opportunity to meet the artists who are staying at AARK this month and also to get to know some of the local artists.
For more information, see this News post on this website -> link
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