My Throat, My Air

Overview

Set in Munich's petty-bourgeois Westend, film documents life at home with former Fassbinder actor, Warhol collaborator, and horror movie director Ulli Lommel. Rather than a straight documentary portrait of this bohemian household, the camera prefers to follow the narrative impulses of the family members. Lost in serious play, the kids improvise hypnotic death scenes while their mother claims to come from a planet where everything is "ethereal and incorporeal." As parent-child relations are unscripted and re-scripted on the fly, the dilated time of a collective daydream is punctuated by the ordinary sounds of an electric toothbrush, vacuum cleaner, and piano.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

May 3, 2014

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Germany

Cast

Ulli Lommel

Director

Loretta Fahrenholz

Writer

Loretta Fahrenholz

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3755670