Day Is Done Page #5

Synopsis: A smokestack stubbornly pierces the sky. Trains rumble by down below. Lights come on in the buildings as night falls. There is a man behind the camera, looking for an image -- of himself? Of the world? Of society? By day and night, in rain and snow, he stands filming at the window of his studio. Periodically we hear people leaving messages on his answering machine. They talk about the weather while on vacation and congratulate him on his birthday. His father dies, a child is born, the young family begins to fall apart. Time passes. Slowly the cityscape morphs into the inner landscape of the man behind the camera.
Genre: Documentary
Director(s): Thomas Imbach
Production: Other German Cinema Distributor
  1 win & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Year:
2011
111 min
Website
33 Views


mixing studio twice

and you're always

behind closed doors

and I can't reach you.

And by the time you're finished,

I have to go to work again

and I'm hard to reach, too

so I thought, I'll just babble

on the answering machine,

at least you can listen to it.

But I'll be home tonight.

I'm having a TV night and

folding the laundry,

an easy peasy Claudia night.

So we can probably speak then.

Okay?

Hello?

Say good night to dad.

Good night!

Daddy?

- Daddy isn't there.

- He isn't?

- It's just the tape.

- Where?

In Dad's studio.

You can say good night to him.

Huh?

You can say good night

on the tape.

Don't want to... hang up.

I'm going to sit in the tub and read

in about 5 or 10 minutes

and will probably be finished around 11,

hairdried and everything.

And then heading for bed,

I hope you can call me by then.

Hi, it's me.

I just wanted to ask...

I don't think you'll

be home for the night;

I might go and sleep

in your bed,

because my room

is so smoky.

Just in case

so you know.

Hi Thomas,

this is Irene.

I spoke to the Zurichsee paper,

they want to do it mid-September,

so a week before the film launch

I could make a cover for you,

with you, about you, for you, no...

Call me sometime.

I'd love to have a video too

to watch it again and then

I'd like to meet with you, okay?

Thomas, hello. This is Jo Lang,

your former teacher.

We'd like to organize something

with you and your film

a tour vocational school in Zurich.

One of your leads

is an apprentice here...

he's going to school here,

and I think your film - Ghetto -

is very, very good.

Thanks. Ciao.

Hi, this is Jrg. I've been trying

since 6 and it's always busy.

Did you just run off to a date?

Hi Thomas, this is Claudia.

It's 10 past 6...

I'm not at home, I'm out

with Corinne and I've decided

I can't go on like that.

It nearly knocked me out this afternoon,

when I was running around

for the holidays.

It's just too much, too hyper,

I can't stand all the stress and...

...oh, I don't know.

Now you got exactly

what you wanted.

You got me to leave my desk.

You said

I'd start screaming and you bugged me,

until I did and Noah woke up

and then you just split.

The kid starts screaming,

because you think

you have to discuss things.

And then you just split.

It's impossible.

You haven't got a clue!

He keeps waking up

and crying all night. You don't know

about it because you aren't here.

Hello Thomas, this is Jrg,

I've just seen the most exciting film.

I think it's one of the best

I've ever seen.

It's so encouraging and

it's already given me a lot of ideas.

So...

I'm sure it'll give us a kick

for our own film.

I just wanted to tell you. I'm getting

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Thomas Imbach

Thomas Imbach (born 1962) is an independent filmmaker based in Zürich, Switzerland. With his production company Bachim Films, Imbach produced his own work until 2007. He then founded Okofilm Productions together with director/producer Andrea Staka. All of his films have been released theatrically and Imbach has won numerous awards for his work, both in Switzerland and abroad. With Well Done (1994) and Ghetto (1997) Imbach established his trademark audio-visual style, which is based on a combination of cinema- verité camera-work and fast-paced computer-controlled editing. His fiction features Happiness is a Warm Gun (nominated for the Golden Leopard at Locarno International Film Festival), as well as Lenz (2006), I was a Swiss Banker (2007) and the fictive autobiography Day is Done (2011) all premiered at the Berlinale. His latest feature film Mary Queen of Scots celebrated its premiere in Locarno and at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013. more…

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