Packed film schedule

Another day, another dollar and another problem. I arrived early this morning back in Uppsala from my night in Stockholm with a big problem. There is no time! There’s no time to eat, no time to write and no time to sleep. If you want to eat, bring a fruit because the schedule is packed all day, all week.

If you want to write, learn to write in the dark or practice great “Good Will Hunting” kind of memory so you can write at night and there’s the reason why there’s no sleep. However, burning the midnight oil to keep everything updated has never been this good.

Yesterday was a hectic day. I went to Israel, France, South Korea, Finland, United K, Austria and Italy and all within 2 hours. Yeah, my frequent flyer points are amazing. These films were not the best way for me to start my day. Some of them were way too experimental and a little bit too much out there for me. Most out there was a film called Burning Palace. This was an Austrian film and I have a better chance of explaining Russian to you then what this movie is about and I don’t even speak Russian. The feeling I got when watching it was very “Lynchian”. David Lynch is a master at this and the director of Burning Palace, Mara Mattuschka, should feel very comfortable in his shadow. The biggest problem is just that the film is too long, way too long. Actually if it was half of its 32 minutes it would be great.

Today I’m doing the interview with the writers and directors of Elephant Skin, Severin Fiala and Ulrike Putzer, so get ready for that. If you have a question for them, too bad.

I haven’t had time yet to write about all films on my Twitter but I promise I’ll do it as soon as possible. The only issue here is that every day I watch at least 10-20 new ones so the list will be long. I am booked for about 10 hours of film today and sad to say, there’s no Swedish ones showing today. It’s a Swedish free day for the festival I guess. But tonight, after the festival, I’ll buy a beer, a good beer, a Swedish beer. Just to get even.