Like a jazz musician “playing” the camera, Johannes Hammel adapts the Orpheus myth in free form. With surreal and comedic scenes, found footage, and playful references to cinema, Family Portraits undergoes numerous metamorphoses that repeatedly refer to the fine line between life and death. A film free of prefabricated grammar, cinema as exploration of the underworld.
Director: Johannes Hammel
Script: Johannes Hammel
Cast: Karl Fischer, Susi Stach, Mirella Hammel, Carl Hoess, Lennart Preining
Camera: Johannes Hammel
Editor: Johannes Hammel
Location Sound: Jan Zischka, Andreas Hamza
Music: Heinz Ditsch, Bernhard Fleischmann, George W. Johnson
Additional Credits: Künstlerische Mitarbeit: Maria Kracikova, Jan Zischka, Jakob Fischer, Josephine Ahnelt
Producers: Johannes Hammel
Production: Johannes Hammel Film- & Videoproduktion
Funded by: BMKÖS – innovative film
Stadt Wien MA 7
CINE ART Steiermark
World Premiere: Diagonale '24
Production format: analog+digital
Script: Johannes Hammel
Cast: Karl Fischer, Susi Stach, Mirella Hammel, Carl Hoess, Lennart Preining
Camera: Johannes Hammel
Editor: Johannes Hammel
Location Sound: Jan Zischka, Andreas Hamza
Music: Heinz Ditsch, Bernhard Fleischmann, George W. Johnson
Additional Credits: Künstlerische Mitarbeit: Maria Kracikova, Jan Zischka, Jakob Fischer, Josephine Ahnelt
Producers: Johannes Hammel
Production: Johannes Hammel Film- & Videoproduktion
Funded by: BMKÖS – innovative film
Stadt Wien MA 7
CINE ART Steiermark
World Premiere: Diagonale '24
Production format: analog+digital
