DEAR DIRECTOR

In 1980 American jazz pianist Kazzrie Jaxen watches Ingmar Bergman’s From the Life of the Marionettes. Afterwards she writes him a sixteen-page letter explaining how the film changed her life. It had started a dramatic inner journey which made her understand that she is not alone in her own body: hidden inside a small lump of fat under her skin rest the remains of her unborn twin. Dear Director is based on a real fan letter written to Bergman that Swedish director Marcus Lindeen found while doing research on unfinished Bergman scripts for a play. Kazzrie Jaxen, who wrote the letter 35 years ago, stars as herself in the film.

Dear Director is a short film that had its world premiere in the section Pardi di Domani at The Locarno Film Festival in August 2015, where it was awarded the Cinema & Gioventù prize for best international short film.






INFO & CREDITS

LENGTH 14 min
GENRE Hybrid Documentary
FORMAT DCP – 2K, 2:39 Scope, Color
LANGUAGE English and German
YEAR 2015

DIRECTOR AND WRITER Marcus Lindeen
PRODUCER Juan Pablo Libossart
EDITING Therese Elfström
CINEMATOGRAPHY Lisabi Fridell
MUSIC AND SOUND Hans Appelqvist

PRINCIPAL CAST Kazzrie Jaxen, Thomas Bosket

PRODUCTION COMPANY Fasad Production AB
SUPPORTED BY Swedish Television, The Swedish Film Institute
DISTRIBUTION Folkets Bio



FESTIVALS & SCREENINGS

Locarno Film Festival (Winner Cinema & Gioventù prize for best international short)
Screening with Bergman’s “From the life of the marionettes” at The Metrograph, New York
Alexandrinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia
Kulanshi Contemporary Art Center, Astana, Kazakstan
Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina
New Horizons Cinema, Wroclaw, Poland
Busan Cinema Center, South Korea
House of Sweden, Washington DC, USA
Nordwind Festival, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Germany
PHI Centre, Montreal, Canada




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