The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.
Hellmuth Costard
Director, Writer
Hellmuth Costard
Applicant
Hilka Nordhausen
Gallery owner
Andy Hertel
Painter
Werner Grassmann
Film producer
Herbert Jeschke
Friend
Hark Bohm
First Director
Wolfgang Treu
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Second Director
Michael Ballhaus
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