- Director
Paul Poet
- Producer
Martin Pieper ...
- Co Producer
Christian Beetz ...
- Production company
Navigator Film ...
- Director of photography
Enzo Brandner ...
- Editor
Karina Ressler
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Empire Me - New Worlds Are Happening!
Empire Me - Der Staat bin ich!, Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, 2011, 100 min, 35 mm, Creative, Philosophy, Society, Youth Documentary
Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road movie covering land, water and the wildest realms of the imagination. Simultaneously creative documentary and pulsating cultural portrait, the film traces a new "unplugged" generation - their motives, their anxieties and their dreams. A film that shows how this generation realizes its escapist fantasies in new economic and political forms and how they collide with oppressive everyday realities.
Director:
Paul Poet
Producer:
Johannes Rosenberger, Martin Pieper
Director of photography:
Enzo Brandner, Gerald Kerkletz, Jerzy Palacz
Screenplay:
Paul Poet
Editor:
Karina Ressler
Sound:
Joe Knauer, Dan McMahon, Klaus Kellermann, Atanas Tcholakov
Co Producer:
Christian Beetz, Bady Minck
Music:
Alexander Hacke
Languages:
Danish, English, German, Italian, Macedonian
Subtitles:
English
Navigator Film
(Production company)
Schottenfeldgasse 14
A-1070 Vienna, Austria
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion
(Coproduction company)
Heinrich-Roller-Straße 15
10405 Berlin, Germany
Minotaurus Film Luxembourg
(Coproduction company)
49 rue de Warken
L-9088 Ettelbruck, Luxembourg
ZDF - Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
(Coproduction company)
ZDF Strasse 1
55127 Mainz, Germany
ZDF/ARTE
(Production company)
ZDF-Strasse 1
551 00 Mainz, Germany
Films Transit International
166 Second Avenue
NY 10003 New York, USA
Diagonale 2011, Austria
European Film Awards, 2011
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2012, Czech Republic
Special Jury Award -
Word Fest Houston 2012, USA
Best Flm -
Aubagne International Film Festival 2012, France
Project Development supported by MEDIA and Austrian Film Institute; Produced with the financial support of Austrian Film Institute, Film Fund Luxembourg, ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Cinestyria, Filmkunsta