Carmen

A documentary about the wondrous passion of Carmen Martinek, who takes movie theaters as her lovers.Carmen does a little of everything at Vienna's Schikaneder cinema: She cleans and caresses it, and runs the projector. She strokes its seats and even sleeps there after long nights at the bar. It is, she admits, just like being with a person you couldnŽt live without. Anja Salomonowitz made a quiet little film about Carmen, observing her as she moves through the empty theater, as she puts in only brief appearances at home and immediately returns to the base station. After being forced to watch as her last theater was transformed into a supermarket, Carmen considers movie theaters to be erotic but also endangered environments.

Country:
Genre:

Documentary,

Romance

Duration:

23 minutes

Year:

1999

Director:

Anja Salomonowitz

Cast:
Carmen Martinek

Self

Crew:
Anja Salomonowitz

Director

Hannes Anderwald

Director of Photography

Samir Zeciri

Music

Helmut Kahlert

Music

Gregor Wille

Editor