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A FILM BY PETER VOLKART - Reck Filmproduktion

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HOMMAGE À RAYMOND ROUSSEL<br />

A F I L M B Y P E T E R V O L K A R T<br />

Fiction, 35mm, Deutsche Originalversion (s.t. français, english subtitles), 15 min, Switzerland 2005<br />

He was in the headlines for a brief period in the late 1920s:<br />

Igor Leschenko, the young physicist from Hermannstadt, whose bizarre<br />

experiments cast doubt upon the law of gravity. The debacle at the<br />

pataphysicist convention leads to a secret expedition to the point of<br />

zero gravity. Rare film documents of a hazardous journey beyond<br />

Zentropa through the Karfunkel archipelago.<br />

Will Leschenko ever find the Nanopol island?<br />

Igor Leschenko a brièvement fait les gros titres à la fin des années 20.<br />

Le jeune physicien d’Hermannstadt qui avait ébranlé la loi de la gravité avec<br />

ses expériences bizarres, c’est lui. La débâcle au congrès des pataphysiciens<br />

fut suivie d’une expédition secrète jusqu’au point d’anti-gravité.<br />

Des films documentaires rares retracent un voyage au-delà de Zentropa<br />

à travers l’archipel menaçant de Karfunkel.<br />

Igor Leschenko découvrira-t-il l’île Nanopol?<br />

Ende der 20er Jahre war er kurz in den Schlagzeilen:<br />

Igor Leschenko, der junge Physiker aus Hermannstadt, der mit seinen<br />

bizarren Experimenten das Gesetz der Schwerkraft ins Wanken bringt.<br />

Das Debakel am Kongress der Pataphysiker führt zu einer geheimen<br />

Expedition zum Antigravitätspunkt. Rare Filmdokumente einer Reise<br />

jenseits von Zentropa durch den bedrohlichen Karfunkel-Archipel.<br />

Wird Leschenko die Insel Nanopol je finden?<br />

(...) Volkart pays homage to both Raymond Roussel and Pataphysics and, in a<br />

certain way, continues where “The Young Eskimo” left off. With the difference<br />

that then a stranger reached the unfamiliar shores of this earth while here,<br />

on November 31, an expedition to unexplored regions in high latitudes begins.<br />

”But above all” the narrator asks, “what is this Leschenko doing in my head all this<br />

time?” – showing images half-“Zelig”, half-“Gizmo” of bizarre experiments made<br />

by the young physicist from Hermannstadt, pictures which are soon replaced by<br />

wild and empty landscapes and “temporarily nailed-together” futuristic cities,<br />

leaving us without any hope of ever arriving somewhere.<br />

Production and Worldrights:<br />

RECK <strong>FILM</strong>PRODUKTION<br />

Dienerstrasse 7, CH-8004 Zürich, Phone ++41 (0)1 241 37 63<br />

f.reck@bluewin.ch www.reckfilm.ch<br />

Distribution Switzerland:<br />

LOOK NOW!<br />

www.looknow.ch<br />

NZZ (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)<br />

89º 15´ north 113º 75´ east

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