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FanTasia 2004 Montreal

JOURNEY INTO BLISS hatte im Juli 2004
internationale Premiere auf der FanTasia,
Nordamerikas größtem Festival für den
phantastischen Film.



Das Premierenkino The Hall Theatre mit über 700 Plätzen


JOURNEY INTO BLISS lief in 2 ausverkauften Vorstellungen
im Hall Theatre und im Salle de Sève und wurde mit dem Publikumspreis in Silber in der Kategorie „Most Groundbreaking Film“ ausgezeichnet:

BRONZE
EX-AEQUO: NOTHING (CANADA, 2003, Vincenzo Natal, ALLIANCE VIVAFILM)
and SAVE THE GREEN PLANET (KOREA, 2003, Jang Jun-Hwan, CJ entertainment)

 

Die Kritiken nach der Premiere:


Almost impossible to categorize, and playing like something Terry Gilliam has nightmares about, JOURNEY INTO BLISS is either something you'll admire or absolutely despise. Hell, it took me a few days just to get over the shock of watching it.
The movie screened at FantAsia 2004 to a completely packed house. In fact, there were more people for this single showing than for any other film I've been to since the festival started.
Mitch Davis, one of the directors here for international programming, had been raving about it since I arrived. After watching it, I understand why.
Jeremy Knox FILM THREAT

German underground director Wenzel Storch brings us the disturbed strangeness of JOURNEY INTO BLISS. Part Gilliam`s folktales, part Greenaway`s sinister twistiness, Storch cuts at our filmic sensibilities and makes us love it.
Dylan Young HOUR


A frenzy of archaic technology, visually stimulating clutter, clownish aristocracy, absurd black humour and antiquated fairy-tale iconography, JOURNEY INTO BLISS will have many tagging German indie filmmaker Wenzel Storch as Terry Gilliam on a budget - or maybe on crack.
Rupert Bottenberg MONTREAL MIRROR

JOURNEY INTO BLISS est VRAIMENT le trip d'acide sécuritaire pour le prix d'un billet de cinéma.
Pascal Forget ZTELE


Ladies and gentlemen, meet Wenzel Storch! He has come to us from another planet with a mission to illustrate how delirious and inspirational filmmaking can be when one hits the game with NO RULES and a ton of imagination.
JOURNEY INTO BLISS is an ingeniously handcrafted labour of madness, the likes of which hit the screen about as often as Hailey’s comet can be seen from earth.
Mitch Davis FANTASIA FILMFESTIVAL





Mitch Davis (Director Of International Programming)
und Pierre Corbeil (Festival Director) mit Udo Kier



Shelley Baart, Jonathan Doyle,
Simon Laperrière und Sarah Duda vom FanTasia-Team





Herr Storch in der Notre-Dame Basilica of Montréal



Co-Autor, Set Designer und Cutter Matthias Hänisch
spielt in JOURNEY INTO BLISS
den König der Feinschmecker, der Opfer einer Gehirnwäsche wird...



...und auf dem Titel des MONTREAL MIRROR landete:


ANKÜNDIGUNGSTEXT IM
FANTASIA-FESTIVALKATALOG

This could very well be the strangest film we’ve ever screened at the festival. Inside a gigantic floating “snailboat” (IE – a giant snail shell that functions as an industrial ship), we find grizzled Captain Gustav on the verge of his retirement. He loves his crew - a bizarre team consisting of lumbering men and talking animals (!) - but he’s ready for change. He gets exactly that when his ship stumbles across an uncharted island that for all intents and purposes, does not exist. The region is under surreal monarchist rule, lorded over by crazy king Kniffi, who just happens to be an old “friend” of Gustav’s… Talking frogs, insightful snowmen, a bunny whose powerful ejaculation allows characters to travel through time, literal brainwashing (as in a brain is removed, bathed and replaced), old school psychedelic opticals and a cast who appear to be under the influence of every illicit substance that doesn’t kill on ingestion are only the beginning.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Wenzel Storch! He has come to us from another planet with a mission to illustrate how delirious and inspirational filmmaking can be when one hits the game with NO RULES and a ton of imagination. Wildly individualistic, cuddly cute, grotesquely obscene, hilariously loopy and all but impossible to synopsize with traditional letters of the alphabet, JOURNEY possesses an anarchistic narrative that can best be likened to cinematic memory-association. Through sheer force of will, Storch manages to make his radical storytelling verve feel naturally (somewhat!) coherent. Like EL TOPO, DELICATESSEN, CAT SOUP or the best work of Jan Svankmajer and Terry Gilliam, JOURNEY exists in a universe entirely of its own. Storch and executive producer Ralf Sziele spent a solid year in 1996 just gathering materials in order to build their crazy sets and costumes, begging farmers for their scrap and sometimes raiding factories. With a team amassed, they spent the next two years creating their sets 23 in all. They also built a castle façade …which was decimated by a storm… so they built it again! For the film’s eclectic special effects, Storch enlisted the services of underground legend Jorg (NEKROMANTIK) Buttgereit, who also ended up contributing a memorable performance. The film’s hysterical stop-motion shots were lensed with a 74-year old Éclair! In the end, the post-production period took another 3 years. And now, JOURNEY INTO BLISS is alive, ready to confound the world with its lunatic charms. It is an ingeniously handcrafted labour of madness, the likes of which hit the screen about as often as Hailey’s comet can be seen from earth.

Mitch Davis


 


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