Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse
Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse is a documentary of Swiss journalist Thomas Haemmerli.
Action
Undergoes It was on his fortieth birthday Thomas Haemmerli death of his mother. The next shock is completely littering the apartment of the deceased. For a month, clean up Thomas and his brother Erik and see the Rafters recordings that date back to the thirties. This results in two approaches: Firstly, the struggle against chaos, in which the apartment is increasingly empty and clean, and the other, the history of the family, which is always chaotic. The film deals very openly deals with the compulsive hoarding syndrome.
Background
Director Haemmerli has to process his mother's death tried putting it - lived through his work as a TV journalist - used his camera to document the environment. When they later realized that the material was met with great interest from a documentary was produced.
" My brother and I had suspected that the apartment would be rather messy, but what we found was beyond our worst fears. Like most hoarders put our mother heaven and earth, never to let anyone into their home. During one month we cleaned up the apartment and worked our way through the material mountains. We found many testimonies from the family history: photos that date back to the 1880s. Footage from the 30s and 40s, and everything that my mother had turned from the 60s. The unusual material was the starting point for the film: about seventy years of family history. And the ability to rotate in the apartment without relatives to veto. "
"I was always of the opinion that the stories that are told in a funny evening, also are the ones that you should tell a wider audience. "
Reviews
"I admire the merciless attitude of Haemmerli to his parents - a father she pushes me from the same show. "
"The film is reverent free, shameless and indiscreet. Politically correct are the Haemmerlis maximum accidentally. [.. ] There is an evil, sometimes furiously funny film that has good stuff to say about our culture of remembrance in glossy albums, out of which it stinks. "
"Most uncomfortable the topic, extremely impious its implementation: Both together is great."
" It can be found dealing with the deceased mother tasteless, exploitative and cynical. But the disturbing ease and cool perspective are also the great strength of the film. ' Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse ' has the courage to want to entertain, rather than wallow in grief. "
" The mere fact that the living conditions of women of all typical orderliness contradict, is a charter for the Swiss to wipe their dignity forever. [ ... ] Every crush proof of love of woman, yes, her whole life is in front of the camera and zermüllt. "
" It is sold [ the film ] as a black humorous attempt to confront the taboo of death. What have delivered with their " documentary comedy" in reality the Haemmerlis, but is not the deconstruction of a taboo, but the documentation of own emotional neglect. "
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The young Kofi Annan occurs in the film because he was a guest at the wedding of Haemmerlis parents.
The film was promoted in 2006 by the Zurich Film Foundation with CHF 90'000.
International publication
The first official screening outside of Switzerland was in April 2007 at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto / Canada under the title "Seven dumpsters and a corpse".
In Germany the film was shown in the fall of 2007 to several film festivals. He arrived in Switzerland in March 2007 in the cinemas, launched in Germany on 17 April 2008, and in October 2008 in Austria.
Awards
- Zurich Film Prize 2007
- Audience Award of the Duisburg Film Week 2007
- Nomination Swiss Film Prize 2008