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Postcards From Last Summer
Postcards From Last Summer
14' 45''/ 16mm / Color, B&W / USA / 2021
16min/Color, B&W/Digital & 16mm/USA/2019
2021 New Wave Short Film Festival / Best Actress Isadora Leiva
2021 Toronto Indie Filmmakers Festival / Best Short
2021 New York Tri-State International Film Festival / Official Selection
Logline:
When two young women on a summer trip face their sad memories, the carefree days turn into a dreamlike quest for self-discovery guided by an imaginary sorceress.
Synopsis:
Emma and Lola are in their early twenties and already know one or two things about broken dreams. They embark on a summer trip with the idea of letting things go. But when sad memories get in the way of a simple escape to the tropical wilderness, it rapidly becomes a cathartic dreamlike self-discovery quest guided by an imaginary sorceress. In the presence of sadness, their bodies, goofy games, and wondering souls become a way to cleanse the sour and bitter taste of life.
Made with expired film stock and amateur 16mm cameras, Postcards From Last Summer is a non-narrative experimental essay exploring time, sorrow, and tenderness.
Film Score:
The original film score was created by Berlin-based, Austrian composer, songwriter, and performer Ella Zwietnig –rep by Manners McDade and a member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers– and her partner Florian Zwietnig, a prolific composer, sound designer, producer, and past member of the German band Mediengruppe Telekommander.
Inspired by a colorful spectrum of influences varying from late '70s Suicide, Kraut Rock, Gabriel Yared, and Eric Serra, Ella and Florian created dreamy, ethereal, haunting, and noisy soundscapes with melodic nuances to enhance the evocative spirit of the film blending art-pop sensibilities and contemporary electronic music through the use of processed vocal, analog and electronic instruments, prepared piano, and the Oberheim Matrix 1000, mastered to analog tape.
Official Soundtrack available on
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Credits:
Written by Adriana Lodolo and Camilo B. Royer
Starring Isadora Leiva and Julia Steiner
Narrated by Ella Zwietnig
Produced and Directed by Camilo B. Royer
Original Score by Ella Zwietnig
Additional Music by Florian Zwietnig
Audio Engineering, Mix, and Sound Design:
Florian Zwietnig at Oogum Boogum Studio
Berlin, Germany & Ochsendorf, Austria
Shot on Kodak Film 16mm
Camera: Krasnogorsk-3
Development, Scanning: Colorlab, MD, USA
Production: Blackanimals
Shot on location in Everglades National Park
and Miami Beach, Florida, USA
The Music Videos
The Poster
The Stills
Postcards From Last Summer and all related content, story, images, texts, sound, and music protected by the U.S. Copyright Act. Country of first publication: United States of America
Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution, or copying of this film or any part thereof (including soundtrack) may result in civil liability and criminal prosecution. The story, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this production are fictitious.
Postcards From Last Summer Film ©Blackanimals, LLC / Postcards From Last Summer Film Score ©℗Oogum Boogum & Ella Zwietnig — All Rights Reserved
Postcards From Last Summer and all related content, story, images, texts, sound, and music are under the protection of U.S. Copyright Laws. Postcards From Last Summer Film ©Blackanimals, LLC / Postcards From Last Summer Soundtrack ©℗Oogum Boogum & Ella Zwietnig — All Rights Reserved