Documentary
New Talent

Life Size Memories

Nahaufnahme eines Elefantenauges mit detailreicher Hauttextur als Filmplakat für "Life Size Memories: Elefanten Hautnah" mit dem Vermerk "ab 25. Mai im Kino"

Two former photojournalists take a large-format camera to Southeastern Asia to shoot portraits of elephants living in captivity and record their biographies. The travel to four different countries on a journey to find out how different cultures influences the fates of their animals. The lives of elephants reflect our own. Life-size photographs make memories tangible and make the individual animal behind the collective face of an entire species visible.

Data

Category: Documentary, New Talent
Financing: Nationaler Film
Format: DCP, 118 Min
Approximate cinema release: 25.05.2012
Release: 25.05.2012
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 705
Funding program: ÖFI
Film location: Burma, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, USA
Shooting time: May 2009 - March 2010
Completion: Spring 2011
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut

Credits

Production: R2 Films
Producer: Klaus Reisinger, Frédérique Lengaigne
Director: Klaus Reisinger, Frédérique Lengaigne
Script-concept: Klaus Reisinger, Frédérique Lengaigne
DOP: Klaus Reisinger
Editor: Klaus Reisinger
Sound engineer: Frédérique Lengaigne
Music: Helmut Hödl
Production manager: Klaus Reisinger, Frédérique Lengaigne
International distribution: Compass Films
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen)