Fantasy Sentences
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Borrowing its title from an experimental text by Walter Benjamin. Many years ago, the cities by the river were gripped by a contagion. Things started to change and everything slowly became something else. It was not clear if transformation was a symptom of the disease or a way to escape it. The contagion touched everything and everyone: animals and plants, stones and soil, men, women and children, their thoughts, their dreams, their memories. An old woman once told me how all memories turn into trees, I could hardly make out what she was saying. She said she could hear the trees singing: To be a body, to be any body. After the years of contagion ended, the cities appeared untouched. One had to look hard to see the traces of the previous time. If one could listen to the trees, what would they say? A way out, a way out?
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Dane Komljen Director · Aaron Hemphill Composer Jenny Lou Ziegel Cinematographer
United States release October 9, 2017 · Produced in Denmark, Germany · Original title Phantasiesätze
Production
Flaneur Films
Production
Denmark · Germany
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Original title
Phantasiesätze
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
Ukrainian
Release dates
Switzerland · August 21, 2017
Limited theatrical
United States · October 9, 2017
New York Film Festival
Argentina
November 18, 2017 · Mar del Plata Film Festival
Canada
September 8, 2017 · Premiere
Denmark
March 15, 2018 · CPH:DOX
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