Make Up the World – A Film by Robert Bramkamp & Susanne Weirich
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I dreamed of having a place just like this: An array of social and professional milieus have grown up at the three prop houses Fundus Studio Babelsberg, Delikatessen Requisiten Fundus Berlin and FTA Props in Hamburg. Each depot has a different logic and its own particular community with its own experiences in dealing with things. Susanne, Miu, Andreas and the three Peters are experts in moving, processing, sorting and presenting up to 100,000 different things.
Lamps, cups, sofas, collection tins, flags, toy fish, plastic flowers, clocks, fake oil paintings and other film props blossom in unimaginable variety
All this stuff changes hands countless times as it migrates from an old-world analogue order to diverse new ones. On the internet film props mutate into descriptions, photos and search terms. In the outside world of “made-up reality” they emerge as quotes from film and TV productions. Turning the focus onto film props reveals an eccentric history of German film, tracing their appearances in such movies as “Kolberg”, “Großstadtrevier”, “Welt am Draht”, “Prüfstand 7 ” or „ Art Girls “, “Finsterworld” or “Sonn
Make Up the World – A Film by Robert Bramkamp & Susanne Weirich
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