Anemonis – from then to now
Sometimes it happens that small things grow - without anyone has intended to do so.
And that’s how it is concerning Anemonis. What started as an Uni-Project at the Institute of German
philology in the course Queer Studies from Professor Susanne Hochreiter in November 2004,
grew into the last months up to a real feature film. Without any kind of financial support or sponsors.
Without any kind of support from people who are working in the film industry.
But for the most part cast with amateurs, only worked with natural light and filmed with a usual home-camera -
this is the growing-up of this NO-Budget-Feature-Film.
Anemonis is no conventional feature film.
It has got a length of about 72 minutes. This of course. But it consists of eight short scenes which deal with one:
queer ways of living. And this in a really varied and in some parts abstract way.
Therefore it’s clear that it’s not possible to put Anemonis into a drawer -
which has never been intended as well. Anemonis is a film in eight scenes.
Not really in dogma-style but with more than a breeze avant-gardism.
Like the film production has been so is also the product: incredible open.
The varied ways of living are the central concern in Anemonis.
The through the film leading theme is the queerness. Followed - with only one exception - by the love.
It’s the first time for me that I appear not only as scriptwriter and director of a feature film but
also as producer, editor and director of photography.
Scopes of duties which put the one or other hurdle into my way during the last months
and which will do as well in the future.
Actresses/actors came and left, scenes were changed, shorted, lengthened
or newly written. (in night-work for my part). Contacts to people from the film industry
turned often faster into non-contacts as I had arranged them before.
And if Anemonis is one thing for sure so this is a fighter.
A revolutionary. One who grow up from nothing and followed its way
to the cinema, festivals and televisions of its watchers - without fear.
And this potential it is also which I ever will summon up to bring queer themes to the public.
With passion and devotion. As well as with the knowing to not do it just for the themes but
also for the own dreams - to never stop fighting for equality and acceptance. For all.
So that Anemonis will reach its goal!
In the name of all, above all in the name of Anemonis
Monja Art
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