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Afterwater

Forum 2022
© Flaneur Films
Early in Afterwater, the second feature by artist and filmmaker Dane Komljen, one of the two students at the core of its story hears one of her peers describe lakes as “variable ecological worlds”. Informed by this spirit of speculation and infinite possibility, Komljen’s film sets out to explore and even create its own such worlds, imagining a film as fluid as water whose fluidity of form and narrative influences time, space, language and gender in turn. Drawing inspiration from the scholar G. E. Hutchinson – whose studies of lakes established the discipline of limnology, and whose writings provide the source of the earlier observation – the film begins with its two leads travelling from Berlin to a lake outside the city. Eventually, despite its seemingly fixed boundaries, the body of water they set up camp beside somehow flows into another, populated by its own increasingly out of time figures. They will not be the only ones. Beguiling and chimerical, its atmosphere heightened by the dreamlike photography of DOP Jenny Lou Ziegel and Jakov Munižaba’s rich, enveloping sound design, Afterwater invites the audience to participate in a form of spectatorship closer to submergence. Let’s go swimming.
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by Dane Komljen
with Jonasz Hapka, Ton Gras, Rose-Anabel Beermann, Signe Westberg, Boban Kaluđer, Gorka Martin, Clàudia Robert, Alice Heyward, Orlando Rodriguez Germany / South Korea / Spain / Serbia 2022 English, Spanish, Serbian 93’ Colour World premiere

With

  • Jonasz Hapka
  • Ton Gras
  • Rose-Anabel Beermann
  • Signe Westberg
  • Boban Kaluđer
  • Gorka Martin
  • Clàudia Robert
  • Alice Heyward
  • Orlando Rodriguez

Crew

Written and Directed by Dane Komljen
Cinematography Jenny Lou Ziegel
Editing Dane Komljen
Sound Design Jakov Munižaba, Linus Nickl
Sound Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Jordi Ribas
Costumes Isabelle Lange
Producers Zsuzsanna Kiràly
Co-Producers Montse Triola, Nataša Damnjanović, Vladimir Vidić
Co-Production Andergraun Films Barcelona, Spaniem
Dart Film Belgrad, Serbien
Jeonju International Film Festival Jeonju, Korea

Produced by

Flaneur Films

https://www.flaneur-films.com/ https://www.flaneur-films.com/

Photos

Dane Komljen

© Ivan Marković

Born in 1986 in the former Yugoslavia. He studied film direction as well as art. Following multiple short films that screened and won prizes at major international festivals, his feature film debut All the Cities of the North was released in 2016. Afterwater is his second feature-length work.

Filmography

2010 I Already Am Everything I Want to Have; 35 min. 2013 Tiny Bird; 30 min. 2014 A Surplus of Wind; 25 min. 2015 Our Body; 15 min. 2016 All Still Orbit; co-directed by James Lattimer, 23 min. · All the Cities of the North; 100 min. 2017 Phantasiesätze; 17 min. 2022 Afterwater; 93 min.

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022