SORRY THAT I ASKED
4K 30 Min. 2013
Film
In Sorry That I Asked, television has arrived - in a metaphor of search, doubt, emptiness. Seven core members of the medium (from editorial to post-production) reflect on themselves as they search and make their schizophrenic, lonely way through the abandoned shell of television. The piece takes place in an unclear, undefined future. Whether the medium will still exist in this future is completely open.
Sorry That I Asked is based on interviews with one representative from each area, in which they discuss what the medium of television was in the past, what it is in the present, and what it could be in the future. The film works with extracted statements from the interviews and places them in a new visual and content-related context. It is not clear in whose psyche or reality the action takes place, as all protagonists speak with a total of seven voices, characteristically fading into the background and moving in a continuous flow through the abandoned broadcasting station.
In Sorry That I Asked, television has arrived - in a metaphor of search, doubt, emptiness. Seven core members of the medium (from editorial to post-production) reflect on themselves as they search and make their schizophrenic, lonely way through the abandoned shell of television. The piece takes place in an unclear, undefined future. Whether the medium will still exist in this future is completely open.
Sorry That I Asked is based on interviews with one representative from each area, in which they discuss what the medium of television was in the past, what it is in the present, and what it could be in the future. The film works with extracted statements from the interviews and places them in a new visual and content-related context. It is not clear in whose psyche or reality the action takes place, as all protagonists speak with a total of seven voices, characteristically fading into the background and moving in a continuous flow through the abandoned broadcasting station.
In Sorry That I Asked ist das Fernsehen angekommen – in einer Metapher der Suche, des Zweifels, der Leere. Sieben Kernbereich des Mediums (von der Redaktion bis zur Post-Produktion) reflektieren sich selbst auf ihrer Suche und ihrem schizophrenen, einsamen Weg durch die verlassene Hülle des Fernsehens. Die Arbeit spielt in einer unklaren, nicht weiter definierten Zukunft. Ob es in dieser Zukunft das Medium Fernsehen noch gibt, ist dabei völlig offen.
Sorry That I Asked basiert auf Interviews mit jeweils einer Vertreter*in aus jedem Bereich, in denen thematisiert wurde, was das Medium Fernsehen in der Vergangenheit ausmachte, in der Gegenwart ist und zukünftig sein könnte. Der Film arbeitet mit extrahierten Aussagen aus den Interviews und stellt sie in einen neuen visuellen und inhaltlichen Zusammenhang. Dabei ist es nicht klar, in wessen Psyche oder Realität die Handlung spielt, da alle Protagonist*innen mit insgesamt sieben Stimmen sprechen, charakteristisch in den Hintergrund treten und sich dabei in einem fortlaufenden Fluss durch die verlassene Rundfunkanstalt bewegen.
SORRY THAT I ASKED
30:00 Min. / 4K / 2013
Dir.: Thomas Taube
DOP: Joanna Piechotta
Assistant Camera: Nico Mews
Composition: Gregor Pfeffer
Editing: Thomas Taube
Thanks to: ORF III
