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FiLM iST. a girl & a gun Fish Eyes (Yu yan)
AUSTRIA
Intellectually challenging and fearlessly erotic, this experimental mon-
CHINA
Against the dry and dusty backdrop of remote China, an old man and
Director: Gustav Deutsch tage amounts to a study of the portrayal of sex and death in the first Director: Zheng Wei his hooligan son Deshui are faced with the sudden appearance of a
Producer: Manfred Neuwirth four decades of filmmaking. The thirteenth episode in the FILM IST (Film Producer: Fu Chang Yang mysterious girl on their doorstep. As empty of words as the landscape
Screenwriter: Gustav Deutsch
Is) series by avant-garde auteur Gustav Deutsch takes its title from D. W.
Screenwriter: Zheng Wei
is empty of green and growing things, they engage only through looks,
Editor: Gustav Deutsch
Griffith’s famous saying about what it takes to make a movie.
Cinematographer: Minho Choi
gestures, and everyday routines; the lone sounds around them are the
2009 / color, b&w / 93 min.
low roar of the wind and the irritation of traffic in the nearest outpost
MS: A to Z
Editor: Zheng Wei
Over the course of the four-year production, Deutsch and his longtime of the booming, industrial China they know only from the voices that
MS: A to Z
il
Cast: Gu Xing Hong, Shi Pei Liang,
partner, artist Hanna Schimek, mined 10 European film archives and the
Shen Meng Yao
come across the airwaves, bringing news of the Beijing Olympics and
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Kinsey Institute (where they were initially denied access), viewing more the Sichuan earthquake – events as meaningless to their lives as words.
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GuSTaV DEuTSCh
2009 / color / 75 min.
than 2,500 films to create the first cut, which consisted of 25 hours of
A master of found footage, Gustav
In the midst of this wasteland, Deshui reaps the rewards of his petty
E F
h h
T Deutsch gained access to such
colorized footage spanning five decades – from the 1890s to the 1940s. criminal existence at the girl’s expense. Upon discovering his actions
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prestigious archives as the Kinsey Now reduced to its current running length, FILM IST. a girl & a gun
zhEnG WEi
have consequences, he seeks redemption – but it may be too late.
Institute for Research in Sex,
weaves together silent films, shorts, pornography, and scientific and
Zheng Wei was born in the Zhe Jiang
Gender, and Reproduction and the
historical reels into a fabric of moviegoing experience. Guided by quotes Province of China. He graduated with Working with a cast of nonprofessional actors, first-time director Zheng
Filmmuseum in Amsterdam for FILM
from Plato, Hesiod, and Sappho, it centers on images ranging from
a MFA in filmmaking from Chung-Ang
Wei has created a nearly silent, contemplative drama that relies on
IST. a girl & a gun. In addition to film,
University in Seoul, South Korea. His
Deutsch produces drawings, music,
soldiers with bombs and girls with guns to dancing, knife fights, and slow pacing and a meditative focus on ordinary activities to capture
short film Summer Vacation played at
photography, architecture, videos, and
copulation. Deutsch describes his risky, impressionistic work as a search
film festivals around the world; Fish
his characters and the surrounding landscape in all their bleakness and
performances. within male-female relationships for “the other half.”
Eyes is his first feature.
beauty. Likewise, the violence central to the plot disturbs and resonates
all the more for being kept offscreen. A joint production of China and
Selected Filmography
Educated as an architect, Deutsch has forged a 30-year career in film, South Korea, Fish Eyes was shot in Inner Mongolia in 18 days with a
Welt Spiegel Kino (2005)
FILM IST. 7 – 12 (2002)
video, and installation art. During the course of research for a girl & a budget of under $40,000.
FILM IST. 1 – 6 (1998)
gun, he helped preserve fragile archival materials by transferring them
White Marriage (1996) to more stable media – thus taking his project as a champion of found
Preceded by:
Pocketcinema (1995)
footage to a whole new recyclist level.
55/95 (1994) Daniel Finds his Walking Stick
Director: Gary Hebert
USA / 2009 / 7 min.
A funny, sad portrait of a man suffering from Alzheimer’s in a changing
world.
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