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A WALK-ON
Germany, 20'20min, 2005

Director: Mirko Kubein

Production Company: MADE FOR FULL SCREEN
Inspired by the novel of: Thomas Friedrich
Executive producer: Wenke Wegner
Assistant to the director: Samuel Oey
Set Design: Henry Seifert
Make up and wardrobe: Anne Beyersdorfer
Sound: Jens Baudisch and Mario Weise
Sound design: Mario Weise
Music: Conrad Oleak
Gaffer: Judith Konnerth
Operator: Sabine Streckhardt
Script, director and editor: Mirko Kubein
The walk-on: Axel Werner
The protagonist: Tobias Lehmann

Synopsis: You see them everywhere. Walk-ons. People who stand aside waiting until the spectacle is over.

How does such a walk-on perceive this, our, world and it’s changing that he is not actively in-volved in and does not want to be involved in? Without taking notice of this process, as time went by, the walk-on has thrown himself into loneliness, uselessness and thoughtlessness. The walk-on has deprived himself continuously of his own individuality by neglecting – and finally forgetting about – his opinion, his courage, his fears, his needs.

A WALK-ON (DER STATIST) does not tell a story. The spectator only experiences fragments of what could be a story. The movie allows us to perceive the world through the eyes and ears of a walk-on. ... until the moment when also he, our only auxiliary, takes a decision and dissociates from the camera, even avoids the camera.

Thus we see not only the tragic situation of a social outcast, but moreover we become part of a filmic experiment, in which current meanings such as walk-on, protagonist, camera-eye, range of sight and gap of perception are put into contexts.

Mirko Kubein

Born in May 1978 in Germany. Graduation from high school 1997 in Potsdam. Studies of me-dia design and art from 1999 to 2004 at Bauhaus-University Weimar. Since 1994 shared pro-jects with diverse artist groups such as DAS BORG, PINGFM, MIZUBITCHY and MY PICTURES DON’T MOVE. Work with different media, formats and techniques: e.g. photography, film, video, text, music, radio play, theatre, live-streaming and internet. 2003 awarded with the VG Bild-Kunst award for experimental film. 2004 birth of his first son Juri. Teaches at the me-dia-faculty of Bauhaus-University Weimar.

FILMOGRAPHY:
AUF WARTEN, 17min, short feature film, hi8, September 1999
WHEN BOGART WAS BELMONDO, 24min, streaming film, October 2001
LOSING A HIGHWAY, 52min, streaming film, February 2002
PLAY FOR TODAY, 9min, short feature film, miniDV, January 2004
ZABRISKIE POINT, 4min, experimental film, miniDV, February 2004
Der Statist, 20min, short feature film, DVCam, June 2005

AWARDS:
University award of Bauhaus-University Weimar, for PINGFM, 2001
Backup Award, backup_festival Weimar, for LOSING A HIGHWAY, 2002
VG Bild-Kunst Award for Experimental Film, Filmfest Munich, for LOSING A HIGHWAY, 2003

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