{"id":4640,"date":"2021-04-23T13:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T11:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/?p=4640"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T12:11:44","slug":"playland-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cc-stiftung.de\/index.php\/playland-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Playland USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past weekend\u2019s virtual film festival for the month of April hosted by New Filmmakers Los Angeles<\/strong><\/a> featured a screening of Benjamin Schindler\u2019s experimental documentary \u201cPlayland USA<\/a>\u201d and a Q&A session with the German director. The documentary will also serve as the basis for discussion at the upcoming symposium \u201cWelcome to our World\u201d initiated by Benjamin Schindler and aided by the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation. Our intern Jens Evers was there online. Here are his impressions.
\n\u201cPlayland USA\u201d presents American history along the lines of fact and fiction, as well as stage and real life. These lines are increasingly blurred and reenactment, imagination and reality become intertwined.
\nThe documentary was filmed at a variety of sites. These are often sites of re-presentation or reenactment of history. The colors, effects and transitions are what characterizes the film that evolves around key events such as the first settlement, the declaration of Independence and the first landing on the moon. Recurring themes are expansion, progress, hope, \u2018The American Dream\u2019 and values. \u2018Playland USA\u2019 exclusively makes use of footage shot by Schindler and his team in 2012, and, in most parts, in 2017 during an eight-week travel through the United States. Benjamin Schindler wanted the film to reflect the movie world and American popular culture and how people live in their own world \u2013 a sort of dream world. The background for the development of the script, he told the audience, was the question of how the United States turned into a movie nation and a place of illusion and myth. The goal for him and his team was to create a documentary that would slowly drift away from reality. The filmmaker interviewed numerous people who shared their very own perspective on life and reality. The viewer, however, is confronted with these worldviews without commentary or filter. Schindler wanted to give his audience a chance to interpret and evaluate without guidance and contextualization, he explained.
\nWhile it is the experimental and alternative style that makes \u201cPlayland USA\u201d so intriguing, it is also what made acquiring funds quite difficult for the team. Schindler stressed the difficulties of finding support for an experimental film that defies genre categorizations. Nonetheless, German public broadcasting would eventually fund the project that, in total, took seven years of planning, filming and editing until its first screening. Schindler emphasized the importance of seeing the world through \u201ccinematic glasses\u201d as the foundation of working on a project like this.<\/p>\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/playlandusafilm\/photos\/pb.484902672279771.-2207520000..\/944598872976813\/?type=3&theater<\/p><\/div>\n

Source picture 2 (cat mascot): https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kinogermanynow\/photos\/gm.197579598805931\/3960630527314080<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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