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INTERNATIONALE AUSWAHL // INTERNATIONAL SELECTION<br />
Moments repeat themselves in Seven Heavens. Words resound and images reappear. Johann knows he has seen<br />
Jenny before. He can predict her movements and imagines where they will take him before he arrives there.<br />
Johann's a recluse who is studying the way of the Carthans and learning to free himself from the ego. Jenny's<br />
a gothic beauty who strips for an online webcam. In the summer, the two have a love affair that will echo into<br />
their present. Come wintertime, Jenny lives at home with her parents, while Johann suffers a fever in his isolated<br />
cabin. Unable to escape the memory of their brief love, Jenny makes a fateful visit to the lake where he lives and<br />
where their passionate memories took form.<br />
Director Michael Busch recreates Johann's deja-vu for audiences as he takes them through an aesthetically and<br />
intellectually intriguing puzzle that explores memory, spirituality and desire. With its unsettling eeriness and<br />
haunting beauty, Seven Heavens plays out like a dark dream. It plunges into the human psyche and resonates<br />
long after the screen goes black.<br />
Michael Busch, *1966, artist, filmmaker, studied Fine Arts at Berlin Hochschule der Künste 1993-1998.<br />
He graduated at the class for experimental film and arts of Heinz Emigholz in 1999. He works as a film music<br />
composer, script writer, editing consultant, recently for: Philip Gröning, ›Die Grosse Stille‹ (The Grand Silence),<br />
Venice 2005, Frank Castorf, ›Der Idiot‹ (The idiot) in postproduction.<br />
His own films include: Words For Windows (1996, 15 min. WP Int Forum Des Jungen Films, Berlinale). Hyperbooks<br />
(1999, 38min) and the experimental feature film Virtual Vampire (1999; 92 min, WP Max Ophüls Festival,<br />
Saarbrucken).›Seven Heavens‹ is the director´s second feature length film (WP int Film Fest Hamburg, IP Int. Film<br />
Fest Torino).<br />
// D 2005, Video and Super 8 on 35mm, 92:00<br />
// Director, script: Michael Busch<br />
// Photography: Marcus Winterbauer<br />
// Sound: Christoph Engelke<br />
// Sound design, sound mix: Jochen Jezussek<br />
// Editing: Ute Schall<br />
// Art department: Susanne Abel, Stefan Hauck<br />
// Live electronic music: Christoph Engelke und Michael Busch<br />
// Songs by: XIU XIU, ELUSIVE, LYCIA<br />
// Producers: Kerstin Isenbeck, Jan Peters<br />
// TV department: Burkhard Althoff, ZDF<br />
// Cast: Daniela Schulz, Christoph Bach, Lars Löllmann, Inga Busch and Armin Dallapiccola,<br />
Hannes Gsänger, Claudia Loerding, Christine Groß, Charlotte Engel<br />
// A production of ›abz abbildungszentrum ohg‹ in co-produktion with ZDF, Das Kleine<br />
Fernsehspiel, funded by FilmFörderung Hamburg GmbH<br />
// Distribution: Michael Busch, www.siebenhimmel.com<br />
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