High Maintenance

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2006 runtime 9'00 colour
screening format DVD aspect ratio 1.78:1 (16:9) sound format Stereo languages Englisch

Jane and Paul are having their anniversary. None of them really seems to be in the mood to celebrate. Conversation has grown stale, Janes tries to be seductive, Paul ignores her. Deeply frustrated, Jane comes to a decision: Her marriage needs a serious update. A quick phone call, and a new cyborg Paul arrives: lustier, more sportive, more adventurous ... and more ambitious, as Jane soon discovers? A film about eternal questions of love in the age of artificial intelligence

director Phillip Van Besetzung / Cast Nicolette Krebitz, Wanja Mues Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Daniel Dickmeis, Martin Todsharow Schnitt / Editing Dorothee Boeckelmann Bildgestaltung / DOP Felix Novo de Drehbuch / Script Simon Biggs
Festivals
Festival de Cannes - Internationale Filmfestspiele von Cannes, France
Short Cuts Cologne, Köln, Germany
Bamberger Kurzfilmtage, Germany
ICon International Film Festival, Tel Aviv, Israel
Waterford Film Festival, Ireland
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany (Talent Movie Of The Week)
Florida Film Festival, Maitland, USA (Audience Award for Best International Shortfilm)
Boulder International Film Festival, USA (Best Short)
Production
  • avanti media
  • Cordula Kablitz-Post
  • Gneisenaustr. 44/45
  • 10961 Berlin
  • ++49 30 2646134
Distribution
  • avanti media
  • Cordula Kablitz-Post
  • Gneisenaustr. 44/45
  • 10961 Berlin
  • ++49 30 2646134

Phillip Van

MFA candidate in NYU?s graduate film program with multicultural background, has directed 6 short films, including Flight and Dunny, a selection of the Berlinale Talent Campus

Filmography
2001 For Hyde
2002 Hallway
2003 Love In Vain
2004 Flight
2005 Dunny