Hamletmachine

  • Drama
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • Music
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Storyline

Hamlet and Ophelia reckon with their doomed narratives against the backdrop of the similarly doomed pre-Wende Germany and 2020s United States. A short-film adaptation of the 1977 East German Heiner Müller play of the same name.

Director:
Annelise Lipowitz
Budget:
$2,000
  • german-german border
  • surreal
  • puppet
  • polka
  • post war germany
  • german american
  • postmodern
  • hamlet
  • electronic music
  • german colonialism
  • german poetry
  • german reunification
  • ugly american
  • hand puppet
  • german expressionism
  • brechtian
  • feminist literature
  • ophelia
  • practical special effects
  • experimental surrealism
  • analog photography
  • anti-imperialism
  • shakespeare
  • anti-consumerism
  • 4k
  • anti-capitalist
  • communist
  • puppet horror

Cast

  • Carter Scott Horton
    Hamletdarsteller
  • Ava Rendina
    Ophelia/Elektra
  • Horatio the Puppet
    Horatio
  • Spencer Haughian
    Königgespenst
  • J. Robert Moppenheimer
    Claudius
  • Lucas Feuser
    Hamletdarsteller (Voice)
  • Annelise Lipowitz
    Ophelia/Elektra (Voice)

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