After a successful festival circuit and many awards (amongst others the Cinedans Dioraphte Jury Award, the highest for dance film worldwide) the short film is now online including a free-download of the original soundtrack by Ralf Hildenbeutel,who has composed already the Soundtrack for What a Witch.

Momentum is starring Patrick Hanna, who has appeared in What a Witch as the Gypsy Man.

Thank to everyone who has supported this project and wish you all great Inspirations with this film. Enjoy!

Watch the Making-Of:

Download and listen to the Soundtrack:

Next to the basic information about the new short film you’ll be notified about upcoming screenings.

cast PATRICK HANNA · SHOKO ITO

directed, edited and visual effects by BORIS SEEWALD
director of photography GEORG SIMBENI
music by RALF HILDENBEUTEL
production design, costumes, hair and make-up MIWHA HANNA

production manager CAROLINA RATH
assistant director CHRISTIAN HEINBOCKEL

additional camera and assistant MARIANNE ANDREA BOROWIEC
gaffer ALINE REINSBACH
electrician ZARA ZANDIEH
production sound mixer MAGDALENA LEPP
boom operator MARTIN HANSEN

production assistant ANDREAS KEHL
production driver NIELS KURVIN
catering NANHEE JUNG

created at FILMARCHE e.V.
supported by MARK-UP GmbH
produced by SEEWALD & HANNA UG

Source: http://sky1.sky.com/sinbad/sinbad-gallery © Impossible Pictures 2012

On Sky1 Marama Corlett talks about going back to her native Malta to film Sinbad, and facing her fear of diving to film one of the dramatic sequences in the first episode.

How would you describe your character?
Rina is like a fox. She lives on the streets and trusts no one. She also likes anything shiny, she’s a bit of a kleptomaniac

How did you prepare for the role?
I started with a back story, figuring out who Rina is at the start of the first episode, then I worked my way backwards - where she came from and how she got to Basra. Andy Wilson, our first director, worked with us in order to create these characters. I think it was important for every one of us to keep the characters as real as possible. He took us on a boat at sea to get used to the feeling of literally living on one. Most of our scenes are on the Providence and so in order for it to be authentic we had to learn to walk on a moving boat or create the same walk on a static one.

What was it like filming in Malta?
Being Maltese it was definitely special filming there. After being away from the island for seven years it was great to be back and see all of my friends and family. Being smack bang in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, Malta was a very important island for travellers throughout history. Many people battled for the island and left their mark, so it has a rich ancient feel and magic embedded in all its buildings and shores.

What is your most memorable moment from filming?
I literally remember everything so clearly but my most memorable is filming the underwater scenes in episode one. I had a phobia of being underwater without my nose being covered because of a swimming accident as a child. But I had an amazing diving instructor who taught me how to use the regulator and different underwater hand signs. Getting over that fear and finally seeing the result on screen was just such an amazing feeling. I didn’t want to get out of the water after wrap that night.

Why should people watch Sinbad
If you love escaping reality for an hour a week, then you will love this.

What three things would you take with you for a long voyage on the Providence?
A massive barrel of fresh water, my knife and a fishing rod.

Warten (engl. waiting)

Cast: Martin Rother
Written/Produced/Directed/DOP: Marianne Borowiec
Directed/Edited/Foley: Boris Seewald | www.borisseewald.de
Photo: Arnold Walter

Shot on Canon EOS 5D MKll
100mm Macro

Berlin, Germany 2012

A spontaneous snowy Sunday afternoon shoot.

A Film by Boris Seewald

Music by Ralf Hildenbeutel

Cast: Miwha Hanna | Mark Hanna

Shot with Canon EOS 550D/Rebel T2i on a handmade SnorriCam with EF-S18-55mm and EF50mm f/1.8

Berlin, Germany 2012

Enjoy the 50s!

Hellman’s play focuses on the events that transpire after a troubled teenager starts to spin a web of deceit about two teachers at an all-girls boarding school.

In The Children’s Hour, Marama Corlett plays Lois Fisher. She doesn’t get things as quickly as all the other girls and struggles a lot with Latin.’ To Marama, the play is about a lie that expresses issues of love and fear, on many different levels. One of the cool things about the play is that the majority of characters are female. It is usually the other way round.’

For more information and tickets, click here.

Wunderland by What a Witch’s score composer Ralf Hildenbeutel follows up the preview purely with strings and piano recorded album Lucy’s Dream, however it is much more continuating and playful. You hear accordeons, piano, glockenspiel and strings, toypiano and ukuleles, partly peppered with spoken vocal pieces like sequences from movies.

The stringquartet at the sea (”Heimweh”), a reverby piano (”Merry goes round”), canonlikes playing kalimbas, the rythmic The Feast (Musicvideo made by What a Witch’s Director Boris Seewald), an almost epical “From Elsewhere” or the walz The Spirits that I Called with Dorit Chrysler playing the theremin (this fascinating instrument which is played by the distance from the hands to two aerials) shows the variety of the new album.

The recordings have been made whithin the last two years. Whenever there was time inbetween other projects and productions Ralf collected numberless ideas, bits and pieces, archived them, elaborated them. Collected items such as toypiano, accordeons or the old violin of his grandfather have been used as well as harp, guitars or an old french glockenspiel.

The album was completed by the wunderful artwork of the German-Russian artist Sonja Sofia Yakovleva.

Lean back and enjoy. Again a very personal album of the artist who recommends to listen to it at once. It seems a bit old-fahioned in these days but it increases the pleasure of listening exquisitely…