Windhoek, 14 February 2008

 MEDIA RELEASE
Issued by
Goethe-Centre/NaDS in collaboration with Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust

On Sunday, 2 March 2008, the general public and any persons involved in film production are invited to meet the Berlin-based filmmaker, director and artist Deborah Schamoni at 18:00 in the Goethe-Centre Auditorium. Ms Schamoni studied cinematography in Prague and has directed experimental short films and music videos since 1994.

Also present will be representatives of the Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust  as well as the members of the band G3, who have received various awards for their music. They were awarded two prizes in the 2006 Sanlam/NBC Music Makers Competition in the category “Best Rock/Alternative” and “Best single”. 

Later in the evening, a selection of music videos and three short films, which were written, directed and produced by Deborah Schamoni will be screened (see synopsis at end).

This event is in preparation of the workshop “Namibian Music Videos in the Making” which will kick off on Monday, 3 March. This music clip productionworkshop is being organised by Goethe-Centre/NaDS in cooperation with the Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust.

During the following two weeks Deborah Schamoni, who has extensive experience in the directing of international music clips, and the Namibian band G3 will work closely together with their specially selected “workshop crew”. The crew has been chosen from persons who work in the film industry or who are currently studying film and media. Michaela Bauer, a Namibian Production Manager, will provide her creative and logistical guidance throughout the duration of the workshop.

The workshop will focus on the process of music clip production: from script-writing and shooting through to cutting and finishing. The final result - a music clip by G3 - will premiere at the “Wild Cinema Film Festival” in Windhoek in April.

Date: Sunday, 02.03.2008

Venue: Goethe-Centre Auditorium

Time: 18:00

Free entrance. Snacks and drinks will be served.

Enquiries:
Christiane Schulte/Almute Möller
Goethe-Centre/NaDS
1-5 Fidel Castro-Street, Windhoek
Email: info@nads.org.na / pr@nads.org.na
Tel.: 061 22 57 00 / Fax: 061 22 12 56

Synopsis of Deborah Schamoni films that will be screened on 2 March 2008 in the Goethe-Centre Auditorium

“Visitors”, 27 min., 2004 featuring ChicksOnSpeed
The Chicks are aliens from outer space. One day they land on a rooftop in Brooklyn in their spaceship. Day by day COS become degenerates, busking for money, sleeping in the streets, having sex with cars…. hungry, unaware and helpless, they cannot cope in the REAL world which they do not really understand or belong to. "Visitors" is a social study and commentary of society in general and particularly that of the USA.  Questions are raised, pertaining to greed, belonging, capitalism, globalisation, freaks, homelessness and American politics in general.

“Hospital Bone Dance”, 7 min., 2006
H is content with the strict control system she has built for herself as a nurse in a city hospital.
H´s system seems well established, until one day she is approached by the patient D, who is unknown to H, but who appears so spooky that at the moment it is more than H can take.
It comes to metaphysical confrontations, in which the new patient D leaves no technique untried for getting through to H; but H is not unprepared…

“Dead Devils Death Bar”, 26 min., 2008
The “Dead Devils Death Bar” is a meeting place for various representatives of a newly-formed middle class, who drink and gossip. Their expectations of the place however, will remain unfulfilled, developing into a conspiratorial nightmare. In a single, continual tracking shot, the film narrates the course of one night, with only 9 actors playing the 26 bar patrons, as well as sometimes singing along with the sound-track.