Heretic Acquires Sundance Title ‘Implausible Machine,’ Debuts Teaser (EXCLUSIVE)
Athens-based Heretic has acquired world gross sales rights to “And the King Stated, What a Implausible Machine,” which is able to world premiere on the Sundance Film Festival within the World Cinema Documentary part, and has debuted its first-look teaser (under).
The movie is the debut function from administrators Axel Danielson and Maximilien Van Aertryck, whose 2016 quick “Ten Meter Tower” was in competitors at Berlin Movie Pageant and Sundance, and was a nominee for the Information and Documentary Emmy Awards.
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“Implausible Machine” is produced by Danielson and Van Aertryck, and is exec produced by Plattform Produktion’s Erik Hemmendorff and Ruben Östlund, the producer and director of “Triangle of Disappointment,” the Cannes Palme d’Or and European Movie Award winner.
The movie is a thought-provoking examination of humanity’s infatuation with itself, and with framing the world by the digicam’s lens. The filmmakers discover how humankind’s obsession with picture has grown to vary our conduct, take a look at the societal penalties stemming from the picture output of 45 billion cameras on the planet, and ask how humanity went from the picture of a yard to a multi-billion-euro content material trade in 200 years.
In a press release, the administrators mentioned: “As filmmakers, we love the digicam. We imagine within the digicam as a instrument that may hyperlink humanity collectively by sharing our experiences, and create a standard understanding. We hope this movie will foster vital considering. It covers practically 200 years of historical past, from 1839 to right this moment – from the very first photographs, to what we now name our ‘content material trade.’”
Ioanna Stais, Heretic head of gross sales and acquisitions, mentioned: “The 2 administrators’ distinctive voice and fascination with human conduct interprets into a pointy exploration of our obsession and interplay with picture all through the years. Crafted with sly and witty humor, it is a actually entertaining piece of cinema.”
Van Aertryck mentioned: “We needed a gross sales firm who can be open to working with us on this out-of-the-box documentary in a manner that was additionally maybe lower than conventional.” Danielson added: “We all the time work collaboratively at Plattform Produktions, and it has been nice to have a gross sales crew that embraces that.”
The movie is co-produced by Vibeke Vogel, and the affiliate producer is Rikke Tambo Andersen. It’s a co-production with Sveriges Tv, Movie I Väst and Bullitt Movie, and has the help of Svenska Filminstitutet, Danish Movie Institute, Nordisk Movie & TV Fond, Arte G.E.I.E., Swedish Arts Council, Gothenburg Municipality and See-By means of Movies.
Heretic’s slate contains Berlinale Panorama titles “Comfort Retailer” by Michael Borodin, and Milos Pusić’s “Working Class Heroes,” starring European Movie Award winner Jasna Đuričić; Valentina Maurel’s debut “I Have Electrical Desires,” which gained three awards at Locarno Movie Pageant and the highest prize of the Horizontes Latinos part of San Sebastian Movie Pageant; and Toronto-premiered “Runner” by Marian Mathias, which gained the Jury Prize Award at San Sebastian.
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