Last Year in Utopia

Last Year in Utopia

by Jana Keuchel and Katharina Knust (73 min) 73 min | 2017

Last Year in Utopia documents an experimental set-up: a staged group media experiment, isolated from the outside world, is reconstructed on the site where the original events unfolded. The boundaries between autonomy and heteronomy dissolve in new role assignments as the film makes the power structure behind the artificially created utopia visible.

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A film by
Jana Keuchel and Katharina Knust
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Last Year in Utopia charts the territory between documentary filmmaking and conceptual art in a way that questions both genres.
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
All ideals are wasted in the hands of the wrong people with the wrong approach and it is everyone’s duty to keep active watch and question what they see in society.
ModernTimes

Synopsis

A remembered place. In a clearing in the woods, distances and journeys are reconstructed from memory; almost no traces remain. Only a year before, this site held a barn, a lake, cows, and a tall military fence — all of it artificially installed. Slowly, we follow the protagonists into the dense undergrowth of memory, into their experiences of a group experiment constructed for the media — controlled by an unseen force beyond the fence.

The audience becomes witness to an experimental arrangement, to abstract reenactments of everyday situations once captured on film. The film explores the overlap between a utopia that was genuinely lived and one designed by capitalism, creating a shifting dynamic between camera, performers, directors, observers, and participants. Fixed boundaries dissolve: who played which role then, and who sets the rules now? Where, in this intricate web of observation, staging, reenactment, and a new cinematic event, can reality be located?

“Last Year in Utopia” asks about role allocation, structures of power, and responsibility. What does equal opportunity mean in the universal pursuit of happiness — and is there any hope left for Utopia?

Awards & Festivals

CPH:DOX

2018 | DOX:AWARD International main competition

Crossing Europe Film Festival

2018

Sheffield Doc/Fest

2018
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Basler Filmpreis

2018 | Gewinner
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis

2019

First International Film Festival Xining

2018

Nonfiktionale

2019
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

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2019
Created by potrace 1.10, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2011

Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest

2019

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Credits

Directed by
Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust
Speaker
Matthias Bernhold
Music
Moritz Sembritzki
Director of Photography
Florian Fischer, Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust, Maxi Richter
Second Camera
Clemens Hornemann, Alexander Reichel
Production Management
Vaclav Harsa
Executive Producer
Jana Keuchel, Katharina Knust, Anna Linke
Legal Consultant
Matthias Braun
Music
Moritz Sembritzki, Willi Sieger
Costume Design
Sabrina Krämer
Set Construction
Andreas Cachavillani, Braian Cachavillani
Art Director
Anna Eppstein
Catering
Mark Schütt
Sound Recording
Katharina Knust, Kathrin Lemcke, Andrea Rüthel, Ginan Seidl
Assistant Lighting Technicans
Clemens Hornemann, Alexander Reichel
Gaffer
Markus Kloth, Florian Lampersberger, Jonas Römmig
Translation
Natalie Gravenor
Production Support
Stephan Helmut Beier, Jörg Drefs
Production Management
Bettina Ellerkamp, Merle Kröger, Meike Martens, Peter Zorn
Programme Coordination
Anne Deschka, Marcie K. Jost
Project Consultans
Bettina Ellerkamp, Merle Kröger
Color Grading
André Winkler
Production sound mixer
Florian Marquardt
Equipment
Tectum Raum & Zeit – Filmgeräteverleih, Ludwig Kameraverleih GmbH, Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.
Sound Recording
Justus Wirth
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Metrix Media GmbH, Florian Marquardt
Color Grading
digital images GmbH (DIGIM), André Winkler
Funded by
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Land Sachsen-Anhalt, Europäischer Sozialfonds ESF
Supported by
digital images GmbH (DIGIM), Metrix Media GmbH, Ludwig Kameraverleih GmbH, Apart Hotel Halle, Goldsmiths University of London, Silent Green, Tectum Raum & Zeit – Filmgeräteverleih
Education Program
Professional Media Master Class (PMMC)

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