NEMOPHELIA is a film poem about the appeal of the forest. It portrays the effects of the aesthetic sublime of nature on men, using long and strong takes. Alienated natural phenomena follow a story characterised by visual foreshadowing and an own associative temporal logic. For the sound level, Corecass alias Elinor Lüdde has created a special natural soundscape with hypnotic score. The sound design supports breaks in the storyline by emphasizing the interplay between real presentation through music made with sounds of nature and their manipulation. NEMOPHELIA creates tension through exaggeration and poetry.
Director Biography – Mirjam Dahl Pedersen
Born in Berlin in 1984, moved 2013 to Blankenburg in the Harz. At the Free University of Berlin I studied History of Art and Literature . While studying, I startet working on documentary films, soon I learned, that the poetic narrative is what interests me most. 2017 I presented five vertical installations. NEMOPHELIA is my first experimental short film. While developing the script for NEMOPHELIA, I was supported by the qualification programme TP2 Talentpool 2015/16 and by Prof. Thomas Bauermeister (Professor for Dramaturgy KHM, Cologne). The film received script funding as well as production funding from the Saxony-Anhalt Arts Foundation.
Director Statement
The film poem NEMOPHELIA creates tension through exaggeration and poetry. The topic of the nemophelist caught my interest, when I moved to the harz mountains. I wanted to tell about the poetic journey of a woman wandering through the woods without looking back. For the sound level, the musician Corecass alias Elinor Lüdde has created a special natural soundscape with a hypnotic score. The sound design supports breaks in the storyline by emphasizing the interplay between real presentation through music made with sounds of nature and their manipulation.