WORLD PREMIERE ASPEN SHORTSFEST
(8 min. 2006)
DIRECTORS: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer
SCREENPLAY: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer
PRODUCER: Ingrid Veninger
A woman and man have an affair in a hotel room in Vladivostok and conceive a child. After seven years, they meet again and remember their night together. An 8 minute improvisation created while attending a film festival in Vladivostok, Russia.
Why do we remember the past and not the future?
In a hotel overlooking the Sea of Japan, six disparate vignettes inter-connect
giving time a shape.
Murder, sacrifice, betrayal, longing and regret weave into a tapestry of souls
remembering and forgetting.
The Process:
7 Directors
From different parts of the world
Met for the first time
At a film festival in Russia
Together, they decided to make a movie
5 Actors were invited to play multiple roles
Each director had 2 to 4 hours to shoot a vignette
1 camera rotated from room to room
Total 24 hours of Production
No script
No rules
1 hotel
WORLD PREMIERE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
(80 min. 2005)
(a.k.a. Re-Generation)
DIRECTOR: Anais Granofsky
SCREENPLAY: Anais Granofsky, Ingrid Veninger
PRODUCERS: Ingrid Veninger, Nicholas Tabarrok, Anais Granofsky
“A retro-future gothic romance.” Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star
“BLADE RUNNER meets Guy Maddin’s THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD…Atmospheric and dark…the (Fielder) family make the royals look well-adjusted.” Chris Knight, The National Post
“First sight of Abe’s (Clark Johnson) gabled house, standing alone in a giant snowy field, suggests “Giant” and “Days of Heaven,” and John Welsman’s majestic, medieval-style score offers a film with terrific sights and sounds.” Robert Koehler, Variety
WORLD PREMIER NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL LINCOLN CENTER
(5 min. 2004)
DIRECTORS: Ingrid Veninger, Charles Officer
PRODUCER: Ingrid Veninger
Somewhere between Frankfurt and Vienna, between dreaming and being awake, where possibilities are held and lost. This is Urda/Bone.
“URDA/BONE. is stunning.” Laura Michalchyshyn, Sundance Channel
“Sophisticated and sensual, evocative and inventive.” Jeremy Podeswa, Filmmaker
WORLD PREMIERE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NYON – VISIONS DU REEL
(180 min. 2002)
DIRECTOR: Peter Mettler
PRODUCERS: Ingrid Veninger, Cornelia Seitler, Alexandra Rockingham Gill
A filmmaker’s inquiry into transcendence become a three-hour trip across countries and cultures, interconnecting people, places and times.
“Mesmerizing… Hallucinogenic… A documentary that is more dreamlike than any drama.” Brian D. Johnson, MACLEAN’S
“Gambling, Gods and LSD becomes a sort of divine sacrament, melting the viewer’s synapses with a mesmerizing array of sights, sounds and genuinely profound insights… It ranks with the most visionary work of Chris Marker and Joris Ivens.” Jason Anderson, EYE MAGAZINE
“A fascinating three-hour exploration/autobiography/Zen meditation.” Cameron Bailey, NOW MAGAZINE
WORLD PREMIERE SPROCKETS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
(2 min. 2002)
DIRECTOR/WRITER/PRODUCER – Ingrid Veninger
Can an eight-year-old boy dressed as a bunny change the world? He thinks he can. Made as part of Toronto’s 24 hour On-The-Fly film challenge.