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Das Kartenhaus (A House of Cards)
AT 2020, 9 min
An overstrained woman has to spend time with her 11 year-old daughter Anna but faces difficulties with her role as a mother.
CAST
Verena Teresa Uyka, Julia Pointner
CREW
Written, Directed by Denis Pejovic
Director of Photography: Dominic Eder-Smigura
Sound Recording and Mixing: Octavio Varela Martinez
Set Manager: Irene Dragaschnig
Production Assistant: Luca Deutinger
Make Up: Elisabeth Ruhnau
Edited by Dominic Eder-Smigura, Denis Pejovic
DIRECTORS STATEMENT
It is a film about maternal love and parental neglect. The mother, played by Verena Teresa Uyka, has always been in a kind of emergency state for me. She has to take care of the child and also run the bookstore, and at the same time she tries to love her child. But the child is perceived by both parents as an object of representation.
As a mother, she is the official issuing point for love and this is also expected of her. As soon as she focuses -"Now I'm in the role of a mother“ - everything is perfect.
But the moment this focus is lost because something else gets her attention, everything collapses like a house of cards. That is why the metaphor of the house of cards is there at the end. And it is about her search for this love and her attempt and at the same time, the failure and the maintenance of this feeling.
SCREENINGS / AWARDS
2020 Southern Arizona Independent Film Festival
Wilcox, Arizona
United States
Official Selection
2020 Tuzla Film Festival
Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnian Premiere
Official Selection
2020 Linz International Short Film Festival
Linz, Austria
Austrian Premiere
Official Selection
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