Black Sun

Black Sun is based on a short novel by the American Science-fiction author Samuel R. Delany which tells the story of the meeting between a "spacer" and a "frelk". A "spacer" is an androgyne being, determined to execute technical work on the planets near by and their moons. A "spacer" is able to adapt itself to any kind of gravitation. For this reason they become for the "frelks"- who depend on the gravitation of the earth - buyable objects of desire.


 


Black Sun starts with the landing of a "spacer" on the earth and shows his meeting with a "frelk woman" who expects a sexual affair with the "floating meat". The impossible love affair (the "spacer" lost its sexual identity due to metamorphosis) takes place in a future world where bodies radiate, where shadows transform into mirrors and where darkness illuminates space. The human being as an insect under the dark light of the sun, in a time far away which is sometimes erroneously called childhood. (Johannes Hammel)

Orig. Title
Die Schwarze Sonne
Year
1992
Countries
Switzerland, Austria
Duration
26 min
Director
Johannes Hammel
Category
Short fiction
Orig. Language
German
Credits
Director
Johannes Hammel
Script
Johannes Hammel, Michael Kathe, Johannes Rosenberger
Cinematography
Johannes Hammel
Camera Assistant
Iseult Frere
Music
Johannes Konecny
Editing
Frank Soiron
Sound
Roland Guggenbichler
Production
Constantin Wulff
Actor/Actress
Hakan Baykal, Eva Maria Klauser
Narrator
Doris Mayer, Viktor Couzyn
Art Direction
Fridolin Schönwiese
Lighting
Hans Kraxner
Costumes
Eva Maria Klauser, Iseult Frere
Make-Up
Alfred Mayerhofer, Helene Grössing
Assistant Director
Michael Kathe
Available Formats
Digital File (prores, h264) (Distribution Copy)
16 mm (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
1:1,37
Sound Format
mono
Frame Rate
24 fps
Color Format
b/w
Festivals (Selection)
1992
Hof - Internationale Filmtage
Viennale - Vienna Int. Film Festival
Locarno - Festival Int. de film
Basel - Film- und Videotage (Filmförderpreis)
1993
Solothurn - Filmtage (Stanley-Thomas-Johnson Preis)
Miami - South Beach Film Festival (Award of South Beach Film Festival)
Rotterdam - Int. Filmfestival
Trondheim - Minimalen Short Film Festival
Philadelphia - Festival of World Cinema
Oberhausen - Int. Kurzfilmtage
Hamburg - Int. Kurzfilm-Festival & No Budget
Melbourne - Int. Film Festival
Ismailia/Egypt - International Festival for Dokumentary and Short Films
Kiew - Molodist Int. Film Festival
Edinburgh - Fringe Film and Video Festival
Berlin - Interfilm-Festival
Györ - Mediawave Media Art & Music Festival
Clermont-Ferrand - Festival de Court Metrage
Salzburg - Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films
1994
Denver - Int. Film Festival
Stuttgart - Filmwinter, Expanded Media Festival
Madrid - ARCO - Semana de Cine Experimental
Carolina - Film & Video Festival
Ludwigsburg - Filmfest
Seattle - Int. Film Festival
1995
Ann Arbor - Film Festival (Most Technically Innovative Film Award)