The Back Room

The Back Room is a small, and because of this more impressive, masterpiece of cinematic handwork. It surprises us with a richness of kinetically organised movement which neatly prevents superficial or anticipatory reading and thus invites repeated viewing. Together with short references to sentimental hits, the film brings together feelings such as yearning, love, parting and hurt. Inventive in its use of cinematographic style, sensitive, but at the same time full of self irony, the film explores the small space between inside and outside, personal reality and that of the other, and, with an astonishing feeling for form, leaves one with the unconsciously consumed dreams and illusions. In the end these impressions are separable - as long as one remains open and curious. (Michael Pilz) The Back Room by Regina Höllbacher is a black and white film with a vocabulary of quiet pictures of rooms, fragmentary views of the world and failed attempts to exchange glances with someone sitting opposite. The film knits these scenes together into a tapestry which, with a certain resignation, emphasises the theme of the loss of utopia. A very personal film, a farewell full of longing. (Klaus Telscher)

Orig. Title
Das Hinterzimmer
Year
1995
Country
Austria
Duration
10 min
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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The Back Room (Image)
Credits
Director
Regina Höllbacher
Cinematography
Elisabeth Neudörfl, Ralf Mendle, Regina Höllbacher
Music
Bernd Hartung
Sound
Regina Höllbacher
Editing
Regina Höllbacher
Sound Mix
Lothar Segeler
Production
Regina Höllbacher
Actor/Actress
Elisabeth Neudörfl, Ralf Mendle, Regina Höllbacher, Harald Flöter, Maria Brayda, Klaus Telscher
Available Formats
16 mm (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
1:1,37
Sound Format
mono
Frame Rate
24 fps
Color Format
b/w
Festivals (Selection)
1995
Uppsala - Int. Short Film Festival
Salzburg - Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films
1996
Barcelona - L’ALTERNATIVA - II Mostra Internacional de Cinema Alternatiu
Triest - Alpe Adria Cinema - Film Festival
Györ - Mediawave
Melbourne - Int. Film Festival
Ankara - Festival of European Film / Festival on Wheels
Humboldt - Int. Film Festival
Onion City - Film Festival Chicago
Denver - Int. Film Festival
Aix-en-Provence - Festival Tous Courts
Edinburgh - Fringe Film and Video Festival
Madrid - ARCO - Semana de Cine Experimental
1997
Toronto - IMAGES - Independent Film & Video Festival
1998
Aix-en-Provence - Festival Tous Courts