Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other title: | Tell me when ...
Tale of two islands.
Intimate distance.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Köhn, Steffen, film director, film producer, screenwriter, editor of moving image work, publisher.
Calvo, Paola, film director, film producer, editor of moving image work, director of photography.
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, production company.
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| Physical medium: | 4 3/4 in.
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| Sound characteristics: | Dolby
stereo
optical
digital
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| Video characteristics: | PAL
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| Digital file characteristics: | all regions
DVD video
video file
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| Notes: | Title from disc label and menu screen.
Tell me when ... and A tale of two islands produced in association with dffb.
Tell me when ...: director of photography, Paola Calvo ; editors, Steffen Köhn, Paola Calvo, Wolfgang Gessat, Santiago Chillari Soberon.
A tale of two islands: director of photography, Paola Calvo ; editors, Steffen Köhn, Paola Calvo.
Intimate distance: camera, Axel Hartfiel, Patricia Rendon, Sasha Osypchuk ; editors, Steffen Köhn, Leonardo Franke, Henrik Kull.
Tell me when ... features Shahbaz Aakthar, Ilham Reggada, Opara Onyekachi.
Intimate distance features Axel Hartfiel, Patricia Rendon, Sasha Osypchuk.
DVD-R; PAL; all regions; 16:9 presentation; Dolby digital 2.0.
Tell me when ... in Spanish, English and Arabic with English subtitles; A tale of two islands in Comorian with English subtitles ; Intimate distance in English, Spanish and Russian with English subtitles.
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| Summary: | Tell me when ...: On their way to Europe, immigrants Opara from Nigeria, Shahbaz from Pakistan and Ilham from Morocco are stranded in Melilla, a Spanish exclave on the North-African coast that is surrounded by a huge border fence. Waiting for their papers or their final deportation, they are trapped in this enclosed city and can do nothing but wait. The video captures this in limbo situation by radically focusing on their sense perception, their increasingly circular movements in this confined space, and their drowning in a sea of dead time.
A tale of two islands: In 2011, the small island Mayotte in the Indian Ocean officially received the status as the 101st department of France. Since that day, an external frontier of the European Union separates Mayotte from Anjouan, its African sister-island belonging to the Union of the Comoros. Both Islands were for a long time part of the French colonial empire. In the wake of the African decolonization movement of the 1970s, referendums were organized on both islands. While Anjouan declared its independence, the overwhelming majority in Mayotte voted for remaining a part of France. Since then, Mayotte profits from French investments into its infrastructure, education and health system, while Anjouan looks back onto a history full of coups d'états, political turmoil and economic depression. Many Anjouanais thus try to clandestinely reach their neighbor-island in nighttime crossings. The film describes the postcolonial space that originates from this complex political situation. It consists of two synchronized films that are projected onto two opposing screens. They chart both islands' lifeworlds in precisely composed tableaux, revealing the invisible bonds that connect them.
Intimate distance: A collaborative cinematic experiment where the director asked three transnational families to record their daily webcam conversations over the course of several months. The film offers a very intimate insight into the fascinating communication rituals of migrants, in which they create transnational family life via Skype.
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