INFORMATION KIT  "ZIMZUM"

ZIMZUM is an experimental feature film by Stefan Zeiler which can also be considered as a narrativ art video.

Data:
Title: ZIMZUM
Runtime: 128 min.
Ratio: 16 : 9
Format: HD / Colour / PAL
Sound: Stereo / DD 5.1
Language: German
Undertitles: English
Germany 2017

Cast:
Actors: Stefan Zeiler, Judith Stevens u. a.
Speakers: Edmund Telgenkämper, Oliver Mallison, Kristof van Boven
Camera: Stefan Zeiler, Alexander Melach, Philipp Ramspeck
Sound: Peter Lang, Hedwig Rochell
Mask, Location, Graphic Consulting: Rika Beisenherz 
Technical Equipment: Alexander Melach
Support Iceland: Saevar Karl
Sculptures: Páll Guðmundsson
Proofreading: Hans-Karl Fischer
Translation: Alison Moffat
Screenplay, Edit, Direction: Stefan Zeiler
Production: Stefan Zeiler

Synopsis:
The loner Jorde Ensov is drawing mysterious plans in a book. As one day he disappears without a trace myths and legends spring up like mushrooums about his alleged plans, his inventions and his whereabouts...

Description:
ZIMZUM is a no budget project positioned between art video and experimental feature. An appearently simple but muti-layered story, told by an invisible narrator voice over, takes viewers on a complex trip in the literal sense: in the middle inside into metayphysic landscapes and thus in a world of illusion and creation.
ZIMZUM - The English Subtitled Version is an independent artwork with a precisely composed lettering design, it´s artistic message differs, in some extent, significantly from the non subtitled version. According to the director it is meant to be the final version. This film didn´t yet have a world premiere.

Directors statemant: 
The film was shot outdoors in Iceland and indoors in Austria with a Lumix DSLR camera. There were no further light or sound equipments. Original sounds were meticulously reworked. Instead on a screenplay the film is based on a vaghe concept with two male characters, one of them dressed completely white and one black. The male figure in black finally did not become part of the game. Some leading plot points are the result of spontaneous improvisations in reaction to specific landscape situations. The script wasn´t written before finishing the complete video editing. There are a lot of more or less ironic references to cabbalistic ideas, especially to the mystic concept called Zimzum, a kind of semi-scientific world theory that was probably invented by the jewish mystic Isaak Luria in the 15th century in Palestine. The essence of that theory is described in lyrical verses that precede the film as a preface title - without however mentioning the cabbalistic origin. The film was produced without any public funding and was entirely self-financed with the support of a few private sponsors. ZIMZUM is the author´s first full-length feature film. He lives as an artist (painter), author and filmmaker in Munich, Germany.

contact: stefanzeiler@web.de