Supersense founder Florian 'Doc' Kaps and filmmaker Jens Meurer met seven years ago at a small Italian restaurant in Berlin. As Doc knew that Jens was an experienced and quite successful filmmaker and producer, he did his very best to get him excited about the Impossible adventure to keep Polaroid film alive. They ended up diving deep into discussions about the wonderful re-discovery of everything analog in our digital world.
To Doc's delight, Jens called him just a few days later to inform him about his decision to start working on a documentary on this thrilling topic, and, above all, to shoot this film completely analog and even on 35mm!! After a successful Kickstarter campaign to finance the film and six years in the making, the film is finally out!
"An Impossible Project" ist shot on glorious Kodak 35mm - when everyone had assumed film was 'over'- and with a full orchestral film score recorded live direct-to-vinyl, this sumptuous feature documentary mirrors the unlikely and often tragi-comic underdog story of its hero, the eccentric Viennese biologist, who set out to save the world's last Polaroid factory.
In 2008, as we were all salivating over our first iPhone, an eccentric former biologist, Dr. Florian Kaps - better known as 'Doc' - had a strange calling. He decided to save the last Polaroid factory in the world, in Enschede in the Netherlands. At first the venture failed miserably. But the Doc never gives up and what follows is a heart-warming and inspiring trip into the new power of analogue - taking him to maybe one of the unlikeliest places of all: Silicon Valley.
Doc might have saved the factory, retrieved the machines from the scrap yard and persuaded the workers to return, but he had overlooked that the chemicals and formula to make Polaroid’s vintage instant film had been lost. Unwilling to let this minor technical hiccup hold him back, Doc finds inspiration in a worldwide community of believers devoted to the analogue dream, including calligraphers, vinyl aficionados and Moleskine book binders. But even though Doc dares to dream bigger than most, charisma and persuasion can only get you so far in a tech-driven world that’s addicted to moving faster and faster.
Six years in the making, this heart-warming, Tati-esque celebration of the analogue heroes who dare to swim against the digital tide will celebrate its world premiere at the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) on Sunday, 26th January, 2020, as part of the "Deep Focus" strand.
Director Jens Meurer and main protagonist Dr. Florian 'Doc' Kaps will attend the festival and are available for interviews. IFFR takes place from 22 January - 2 February, 2020. The film will screen on 35mm and digitally – a rare treat for a documentary in 2020.
Sun 26 Jan, 13:30 - 15:09
Cinerama 1 WITH Q&A
Mon 27 Jan, 17:30 - 19:09
KINO 4 WITH Q&A
Thu 30 Jan, 17:15 - 18:49
Pathé 7
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