Father, Mother, What Should I Film Today?

Father, Mother, What Should I Film Today?

2012 · 53 min

Staying at their vacation home in the South of France, parents and filmmaking daughter have different ideas about what it is to make a film. The exuberant parental motivation is immediately diverted into interviews and resulting cinematic experimental arrangements that play with the realization of the film ideas. The result is an experiment between image description and moving image, which paints the portrait of a family that has a passionate relationship to the image of the nature that surrounds it.

Directed by Isabell Spengler · Written by Isabell Spengler

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