Unconventional musician, visual artist, cook, diva, hypochondriac Hannes Wienert is all that. And much more.
The filmmaker Andonia Gischina has been accompanning her protagonist for more than 14 month in concerts, exhibitions, while heis byuing the first mobile phone or visiting the dentist. Wienert turns every place into a stage, every person into an audience, every occurence into an anecdote.
OUT OF LINE is the film equivalent of a free artist.
Schrill, unorthodox and very close.
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About three years ago, I decided to shoot a documentary with and about various independent artists for my graduate thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg.
Around this time, I happened to attend a summer party hosted by a bunch of theatre makers. It was a sultry Saturday afternoon and several dozens of guests were gathered in the garden, languidly chatting to each other in small groups and enjoying some drinks and food. Just as I was starting to tune in to the general mood, I suddenly hear somebody shout out, “Hannes, play something!” Hannes Wienert – I had met him briefly once before – gets a huge shell from his backpack, blows on it and begins improvising. People quiet down, everybody listens up. It doesn‘t take a minute and a neighbour starts complaining. The hosts give in immediately. They ask Wienert to stop playing but Wienert, unmoved, continues his improvisation until it comes to its natural end.
Wienert‘s resolute devotion impresses me. He has the courage to produce sounds that are not universally pleasing or catchy. He challenges the listening habits of his audience with irony and a sense for the bizarre. He surprises, he irritates, he makes people laugh. “We should make a film together,” I hear myself saying. Wienert looks puzzled at me and doesn‘t say a word in reply.
Some weeks later I receive an email from him. We should talk about the film. Later during the shooting, I decide to focus the film on Wienert alone.
| Genre | : | DOCUMENTARY |
| Running time | : | 97 Min / 1:37 |
| Screening formats | : | DCP / PRO RES 422 |
| Aspect ratio | : | 1.77:1 |
| Shooting format | : | DIGITAL |
| Audio | : | DOLBY 5.1 |
| Language | : | GERMAN |
| Subtitles | : | ENGLISH |
| Date of completion | : | 2018 |
| Country of origin | : | GERMANY |
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hannes wienert | PROTAGONISTHannes Wienert studied Visual Arts in Hamburg. Drawings, paintings, sound installations, graphics, ‘visual music’. He plays various reed and brass instruments: altosax, sopranosax, trumpet, trompsax, watertrumpet, Chinese mouthorgan sheng, piri etc. Concerts and performances with the Japanese Butoh dancer Mitsutaka Ishii, with WuWei, Malcolm Goldstein, Ferdinand Försch, Keith Rowe, Fred Frith, John Hughes, Chad Popple, Carla Genchi et al. Compositions with lyrics from Tang poet Li Bai and with Japanese haikus. |
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andonia gischina | DIRECTORAndonia Gischina is born in Jambol, Bulgaria. She studied German literature at Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“ and film at the Academy of fine Arts Hamburg. During this time, Gischina wrote scripts and theatre plays and worked as a film editor and cinematographer. Gischina has directed several short fiction films and documentaries and participated in two cinema productions as editor and cinematographer. |
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henning thomas | ANIMATIONHenning Thomas works and lives as freelance animator, filmmaker and graphic designer in Hamburg. He studied visual communication at Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts. |
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tobias falke | RE-RECORDING MIXERFreelance sounddesigner and mixing sound engineer. Works vor the North German Broadcasting Corporation, Framegrabber and various feature productions. |
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OUT OF LINE is the amusing and haunting portrait of a tallented and idiosyncratic allround artist. Due to the intimiy of the camera this film outlines a vivid image of its protagonist with all the bright and dark sides. Hannes Wienert allows this Intimiy. The artist plays with the camera and at times he breaks through the invisible wall between him and the director Andonia Gischina. Allthough never on camera, the presence of the filmaker is always tangible. Her cinematic style makes this film to a unique artist portrait.
Bettina Steininger | Filmmaker, Press Relations: International Short Film Festival Munich
Andonia Gischina
Esmarchstr. 97,
22767 Hamburg
GERMANY
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