The Visit
THE VISIT zeichnet ein Bild von der potenziellen Begegnung der Menschheit
mit intelligentem Leben aus dem All. Der Film thematisiert die Frage der Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten mit einem fremden Besucher.
Wer könnte stellvertretend für die Menschheit das Wort ergreifen? Wie könnte man unsere Geschichte, die Eckpfeiler der Zivilisation
und unserer Wertesysteme von null weg erklären? Wir als Betrachtende nehmen die Perspektive des Besuchers aus dem All ein,
wodurch THE VISIT zum selbstreflexiven Medium für unsere Gesellschaft, unsere Lebensweise und die Komplexität des Menschseins
wird.
THE VISIT is a documentary with comedy elements, and a philosophical exploration
of our fear of strangers through the ultimate threat to our self-image: The discovery of alien intelligent life. The UN City
is located in Vienna, with its late 1970’s architecture and its extra-territorial status not unlike a giant spacecraft that
has landed in the middle of the civilized world. Inside this impressive institution representing our belief in humanity, resides
the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs – the OOSA. The Visit opens with a close-up of an animal. It instinctively reacts to
something unknown. Inside the OOSA, a phone rings. Deputy Director General, astrophysicist Dr. Mazlan Othman, is informed
that an alien has arrived …
Director's Biography
MICHAEL MADSEN, born in 1971, is a conceptual artist and the
director of several documentaries, such as the award-winning TO DAMASCUS – A FILM ON INTERPRETATION and INTO ETERNITY. He
is the founder and artistic leader of several art initiatives and part of the artist collective van Gogh. INTO ETERNITY won
the Crossing Europe Award European Documentary in 2011. Michael Madsen lives in Denmark. // Films (selection): CELESTIAL NIGHT
– A FILM ON VISIBILITY (2003, doc), TO DAMASCUS – A FILM ON INTERPRETATION (2005, doc), INTO ETERNITY (2010, doc; CE ’11),
THE VISIT (2014, doc)
European Panorama 2015
Michael Madsen
Dänemark / Österreich
/ Irland /
Finnland / Norwegen
2015
color
90 Minuten
OmeU
Drehbuch
Michael Madsen
Kamera
Heikki Färm
Schnitt Stefan
Sundlöf
Ton/Sounddesign Peter Albrechtsen
Musik Øivind Weingaarde
Produzent*innen Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films) KoproduzentInnen / Co-Producers
Michael Kitzberger, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Andrew Freedman, Sami Jahnukainen, Carsten Aanonsen
Produktion
Magic Hour Films Baldersgade 6 2200 København N Denmark T
+45 39 64 22 84 post@magichourfilms.dk www.magichourfilms.webhotel.net Koproduktion / Co-Production NGF – Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Filmproduktion (AT), Venom Films (IE), Mouka Filmi (FI), Indie Film (NO)