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102 min | Austria/Japan | 35 mm
main programme
credits
PROD: Fischer Film
SALES: Fischer Film
SCENARIO: Edgar Honetschl�ger, Leza Lowitz
CAMERA: Hiroki Miyano
EDITOR: Kurt Hennrich
SOUND: Eiji Tamura
MUSIC: The Yemoto
CAST: Serge Pinkus, Kudo Yukika, Sherri Weiner, Oshio Hideki
screenings
28 thursday 12:00 Venster 1
30 saturday 20:15 Venster 2
01 monday 14:15 Venster 2
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What happens when green tea meets milk? Four young urban nomads meet up in Tokyo - a city alive with pop culture and old traditions. A strange Austrian artist feels attracted to an unusual Japanese young lady he met in New York's Chelsea Hotel and who found a mysterious monument in Tokyo. The privileged young Japanese girl finds her freedom in the role of Lift Girl, which reduces her many choices to a simple 'up' or 'down'. A British radio reporter who lives in New York falls in love with a sacked Japanese salaryman. Characters and cultures clash, opposite poles meet. Milk does not have a storyline in the usual sense. The characters are not 'built up', there are no conclusions. Thanks to the simple script, according to the maker, there was space for improvisation - that was also predictable in view of the very heterogenious group of young actors. The title refers to the Westernisation of Japan: it was the Europeans and Americans who introduced dairy products to the country. Milk is a very original and sensitive film, that has been warmly received by many critics, among them renowned Japan expert Donald Richie: 'I have just seen Milk, and I think that Honetschl�ger might well have made something like a cult classic.'
Edgar Honetschl�ger
Edgar Honetschl�ger (1963, Linz) studied art history and economics at the universities of Linz and Vienna and at the Institute of Art in San Francisco. Since 1988, exhibitions of his work and performances have been seen in Japan, Europe and the United States. Between 1989 and 1992 he lived in New York where he also made two films. Since 1992 he has mainly lived in Tokyo.
films
Sequences (1992, Super8), Mary Rosenberg - German Bookseller in New York 1939-1993 (1993, video), Sequences (19?, Super8), Milk (1997)
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