Adaptation of Henry James's 1896 novella The way it came in a contemporary setting: a boys' boarding school. Gregor is a bit of a wimp, or a dreamer, while his mate Arthur is quite the lady's man. At a party, Gregor meets an enigmatic waif called Billie, while Arthur fools around with a carefree lass named Pia. Billie and Arthur have one thing in common: both witnessed a phenomenon called 'death projection': seeing images of people at the moment of their demise, miles away. These apparitions are brief, the dying look very real and most alive; call it life's afterglow. Destiny has it that something will happen when two people who have faced death this way meet...
Less an exercise in intellectually refined Gothic horror than a melancholic coming-of-age tale with supernatural elements, Graf's use of DV makes this world look like the beyond, or a neverscape - haunted and hard to see.
- Director
- Dominik Graf
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2002
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 89'
- Medium
- Betacam Digi
- Language
- German
- Production Company
- WDR
- Sales
- Global Screen GmbH
- Screenplay
- Markus Busch, Dominik Graf
- Cinematography
- Hanno Lentz
- Editor
- Christel Suckow
- Production Design
- Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer
- Sound Design
- Rupert Medele
- Music
- Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem
- Cast
- Sabine Timoteo, Matthias Schweighöfer