The Lost Color. Feature film, 60 min. Created and directed by: Kris Limbach (Germany) Co-produced by: AADK Spain
Synopsis:
A dysfunctional tourist couple tries to buy a huge property in the Spanish countryside and becomes a driving force toward a dystopian world. But there are other obscure figures distracting them from their enterprise. There is distrust, misunderstanding, and hidden forces behind people’s behavior. But there is also a primitive state being revealed—a pre-civilizational state of life that glimpses through the dark night.
The Lost Color emerges as a narrative film but repeatedly abandons the story in favor of pure imagery-based association. The Lost Color is, after Music for Dysfunctional Airports, Kris Limbach’s second film shot in Spain that explores the economic and spiritual European crisis.
Cast: Lisa Müller-Trede, Jochen Arbeit, Lea Walloschke, James Farrell, Selu Herraiz, José Hortelano Villegas Crew: Production assistant and 2nd camera: José Hortelano Villegas Costume design and 2nd camera:Lea Walloschke Production sound and titles: Julia Bränzel Sound Design: Kris Limbach Make up: Jesi Hook Music by: Jochen Arbeit, Miguel A. Garcia, Hopek Quirin, Pierce Warnecke, Rieko Okuda, Juan Antonio Nieto (Pangea), Ketev.
The Lost Color is an investigative, experimental film exploring the realms of Spanish mysticism and the voids left by the lost revolution. A moon-like landscape, serving as a neutral and displaced setting for the action, becomes a field of experimentation for desire, love, politics, and surreal rites.
Like fixing a rainbow that is missing one specific color, The Lost Color tries to revoke and resurrect the spectrums that have faded from collective consciousness. The film is shot mostly with available moonlight in the desert-like wilderness near Blanca (Murcia) in the south of Spain.
Partly improvised and partly scripted, the actors and crew perform with the freedom of chance and coincidence. An archaic, Val del Omar-esque film.
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Cipriano Torres critique:
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…This year, the International Festival of Murcia has expanded to Blanca with an extension dedicated to experimental cinema, to other forms and languages of narration, of drawing images and adding sounds to them. I spent a few days in Blanca and watched this cinema made by young people who—as I suspect—barely watch television.
It’s not a medium that determines their lives. Watching The Lost Color by the German Kris Limbach, I was caught by his beautiful photography, his syncopated editing, and his captivating soundscapes. Kris created a world of his own, which makes the real world feel unreal. He applies sounds that have nothing in common with the images, as if they had their own life. Regardless of that, the images also start to grow their own life while revealing the action
Interview about The Lost Color and more in the Gonzo Circus #130
Installation for LUNA / Media Art Festival Leeuwarden
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