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Florian Geierstanger | D 2010 | 22 min.

Material: HDV
Format: BluRay
Original language: German

Script: Florian Geierstanger
Camera: Franz Kastner
Editing: Florian Geierstanger
Sound: Florian Geierstanger

Poem: Hubert Kaes
Translation: Gabi Busch

With Josef Lang

Production: Florian Geierstanger
Print/Sales: Florian Geierstanger

www.florian.geierstanger.org

A scent can sneak into your mind and sink deep into your memories. Just like a poem can leave a lasting impression. And just like a reader’s voice leaves its traces. The melody of his sentences reveals where he comes from. This is the beginning of the film telling us: we are in Oberpfalz, in the northeast of Bavaria.

A young guy recounts the story of his life. He started out as a car mechanic, worked as a shiftman in the supply industry, in winter road maintenance, filled shelves in supermarkets, worked as a temp. He also talks about scents he remembers. The perfume of his grandfather who drove him to school for a while: Aramis. The scent of his elder brother who taught him how to spin a basketball on your finger: Jean Paul Gaultier. Both storys intertwine at the end: in his new job as a perfume salesman.

Florian Geierstanger, born in 1981 in Oberstdorf/Allgäu, Germany. 2003-10 he studies art at the Art Academy Munich. 2006-08 he attended as a guest the Munich film school HFF.

Films (selection): 2009 Augen schauen mich an, What you did in my head | 2008 My Way (UNDERDOX 03) | 2006 Transgresiones | 2005 Spur

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