Das Retirée

Original Title: Das Retirée

Documentary | 43' | 2023 (Completed)

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Director:	Julie Pfleiderer
Producer:	Steven Dhoedt
Writer:	Julie Pfleiderer

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A film as a space for impossible conversations.

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synopsis

A daughter asks her architect father: “Now you are nearing the end of your life, what would your dream house look like? This question, from the filmmaker to her father, retired architect Karlhans Pfleiderer, is the starting point of Das Retirée. Slowly but surely, the house takes form, first drawn on shifting layers of transparent paper, then glued together as a scale model. Between the words and the gestures, the daughter's film becomes the father’s last house, a space in which unspoken words, unfulfilled desires can appear, disclosing coping-mechanisms that have survived for several generations.
Als u uw droomhuis zou ontwerpen nu u aan het eind van uw leven bent, hoe zou dat er dan uitzien? Deze vraag van de filmmaakster aan haar vader, de gepensioneerde architect Karlhans Pfleiderer, is het uitgangspunt van Das Retirée of het laatste huis van mijn vader. Langzaam maar zeker krijgt het huis vorm, eerst getekend op verschuivende lagen transparant papier, daarna gelijmd tot een schaalmodel. Tussen de woorden en de gebaren wordt de film van de dochter het laatste huis van de vader, een ruimte waarin
onuitgesproken woorden, onvervulde verlangens kunnen verschijnen en die coping-mechanismen onthullen die verschillende generaties hebben overleefd.

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Creation details

Type
Film
Category
Experimental
Production share
Majority Flemish Production
Belgium
Genre
Documentary
Year of production

2023
Production status
Completed
Original title
Das Retirée
Original language
German

Technical specs

Running time
43'
Available in
2D
Aspect ratio
16:9
Sound format
5.1 (+ sub) Dolby
Available formats
DCP; Apple ProRes 444
Colour
Colour

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Visualantics

Hooikaai 17
1000 Brussel
Belgium

T +32 (0)2 361 51 65
info@visualantics.net

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Festivals

2023: Festival en Ville!

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Co-production partners

Video Power (NL), Julie Pfleiderer (DE)

Supported by

Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF), Film und Medien Stiftung NRW, Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund, Provincie Limburg, Gemeente Maastricht

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Das Retirée

synopsis

Credits

Director

Producer

Writer

Format

Creation details

Type

Category

Production share

Genre

Year of production

Production status

Original title

Original language

Technical specs

Running time

Available in

Aspect ratio

Sound format

Available formats

Colour