Karma Cowboy |
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CO-PRODUCED BY KOMPLIZEN FILM, THE HFF MUNICH AND REM.DOKU.
2002 | 35mm | 1:1.85 | Dolby SR | 45 min
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Synopsis
Jerry Davis disappeared. His childhood friend searches for the trace Jerry left behind. He travels through the U.S.A. and meets people, who were close to Jerry. Just like Jerry they come from the lower white class, get by with McJobs and believe in the future. 'Karma Cowboy' ends with sentences from Douglas Coupland’s novel "Generation X":Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler. And at the end of our lives, most of us will be lucky if any of those moments connected together to form a story that anyone would find remotely interesting. The filmmakers Sonja Heiss and Vanessa van Houten tell one of those stories. They let their first-person narrator travel across the U.S.A from Detroit to Las Vegas in search of his childhood friend Jerry Davis. He meets Jerry’s friends, relatives and lovers who talk about him. "Karma Cowboy" is a compact, precisely told road movie. It takes the viewer to the other end of the American Dream. The characters in the film are marginal figures who eke out an existence doing dismal jobs. Some of them hope they’ll become famous some day. They believe in Elvis and Madonna. Others are afraid of aliens. With a good eye for detail, Sonja Heiss and Vanessa van Houten observe this authentic way of life. A film that confronts us with life’s contradictions, a life that is like a journey, constantly in search of meaning and experience, always leaving traces behind. Short bright moments of hope and fragile dreams brighten up everyday life. |
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Awards
2002
Visions du Réel – International Documentary Film Festival: Prix Regards Neufs Film Festival Munich: Baverian Dokumentary Film Award "The Young Lion" |
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Festivals
2002
Mikrokino Festival Belgrad Shortfilm Festival Landshut Istanbul International Short Film Festival Visions du Réel - International Documentary Film Festival International Documentary Film Festival Munich Sehsüchte – Internationales Studentenfilmfestival der HFF Konrad Wolf (International Student Film Festivan HFF Konrad Wolf) International Student Film Festival Munich Film Festival di Bizzarie in San Benidetto del Tronto Documentary Film Festival Leipzig Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival Film Festival of the German Film, London Documentary Film Festival Duisburg Documentary and Video Film Festival Kassel Film Festival L´Alternativa, IX Independent Film Festival of Barcelona Festival de Creaciòn Audiovisual, Navarra Documentary Film Festival Taiwan Rotterdam International Film Festival International Documentary Film Festival Taipei TaiwanJeonjou International Film Festival Südkorea Kalamata International Documentary Film Festival Selection of the Exportunion of German Films for the festivals of German documentary films: London, Edinburgh, Dundee, Great Britain, etc. |
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