OLIVER MOSER
Director and Screenwriter
NEWS
September 10, 2024 – “The Color of Air” will have its national premiere at the Hamburg Film Festival in the “Große Freiheit” section. We are looking forward to it! Thanks to the countless people who have fought with us and accompanied us this far, you know who you are.
Screenings:
September 28 at 21:15, Metropolis Cinema
October 03 at 19:45, Blankenese Cinema
Tickets can be purchased here.
WORK
Die Farbe der Luft / The Color of Air
Feature Film – 88 min. – Germany – 2K digital – Dolby 5.1 – 2024
Three siblings meet again one summer’s day to clear out and sell their childhood home. While rummaging through their belongings, one of the sisters finds a mysterious photo of a young man whose memory haunts her to this day. It seems to have been taken in front of the house on the day of his fatal accident. As she cannot remember ever having taken the picture, she bites into the research. At some point, she is certain that someone else must have been the photographer. Layer by layer, the past is revealed and a family comes to light that does everything to keep a darkness at bay that no one ever wants to talk about.
Production: German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)
Co-Production: Rausch Film, Jost Hering Filme
Cast: Paul Boche, Bea Brocks, Odine Johne, Hannah Schutsch
Director: Oliver Moser
Screenplay: Linda König, Oliver Moser
Producer: Linda König, Oliver Moser
DOP: Malte Siepen
Montage: Isabella Kohl, Oliver Moser
Score: Matthias Petsche
Sounddesign: Nils Gradlowsky
Mixing: Alex Leser
Colorist: Susi Dollnig
Costumes: Muriel Cuissard
* Filmfest Hamburg, Germany, national Premiere, 2024
* Filmfest Emden, Germany – Screenplay Award – nominated (before shooting under working title „The last Oath“), 2023
Ich geh jetzt / I go now
Short – 15 min. – Germany – 2K digital – Dolby 5.1 – 2019
A couple prepares to move in together and give birth. In her childhood home, Paula persuades her father to let go of her, while Hector sneaks into town to track an old love affair.
Director’s Note
This film is a contemplation on the temporary nature of being and the provisional space we inhabit. All the characters wander between what must be left behind and what must be reached, hoping that something fulfilling awaits them on the other side of the threshold. Every whistle, every gesture, every silence in the film is shaped by this impermanence.
„I go now“ is born out of a personal struggle with the fact that all our shared moments are fleeting, and that our time together, no matter how profound, is always, at its core, finite. Acceptance of this condition, not as a defect, but as something strangely beautiful, is something to practice every day.
Production:
German Film- and Television Academy Berlin (dffb)
and
Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg (RBB)
Cast:
Stellan Torrn, Kristin Suckow, Lena Reinhold, Michael Kind
Writer, Director, Editor:
Oliver Moser
Dop:
Moritz Friese
Producer:
Romana Janik
Music:
Matthias Petsche
* achtungberlin, Germany, 2019
Steinbrecher / Stonecrusher
Short – 11 min. – Germany – 2K digital – Dolby 5.1 – 2016
High cliffs and uninhabitated wasteland. No Escape. After an accident, the worker Kai stumbles into madness. Attemps to free himself lead him deeper and deeper into the pit.
Director’s Note
„Steinbrecher“ is an existentialist allegory created at a time when I was deeply immersed in the work of Camus and Beckett. A man wakes up after a presumed accident and has fundamentally forgotten why he is here – his existence seems to have lost its essence. His hope is that he will soon be picked up by his sister, who he talks to on the phone all the time as if she were a salvation. She never comes, or maybe she just comes too late.
Set against the backdrop of a vast, sweltering hot quarry where monstrous machines reduce every human being to miniature, Kai’s story is about entrapment and the disintegration of the self in the face of the ultimate void. The physical and mental landscapes mirror each other. Both explode in the end and become dust.
Cast: Jakob Schneider, Merle Wasmuth, Martin Reik
Writer, Director, Editor: Oliver Moser
DoP: Konstantin Minnich
* Int. Shortfilmweek Regensburg, Germany, 2017
* Short Film Festival Landau, Germany, 2017
* Wave of Films Festival Manila, Philippines, 2017
* Lubuskie Film Summer, Poland, 2018
SOCIAL PROJECTS
Mixit took place as a cooperation of Deutsche Filmakademie and bilderbewegen. Young people with and without a refugee background made short films together as part of project weeks on changing socio-political topics. The finished films premiered in local cinemas. The aim of the initiative was to bring young people with diverse backgrounds together, encourage mutual exchange and promote media skills. more
ABOUT
OLIVER MOSER (*1987) first came into contact with filmmaking as an art student at the HfbK Braunschweig. He went on to study directing at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie in Berlin, where he made several short films.
„The Colour of Air“ is his first feature film. In this context he founded Rausch Film together with Linda König for own future endeavours and those of artistic alliances.
He is currently developing several projects with various film productions – sometimes as a screenwriter, sometimes as a director, sometimes both.
New encounters are always appreciated. Get in touch:
mail (at) olivermoser.de
