The Suit

The Suit

Film by Heinz Emigholz
GER, MX, AR, USA 2024, 89 min
DCP (2K & 4K, 25 fps, 5.1)

History and Fate of your body. Where is the future, what is the future, how is the future and who is the future?

World premiere at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival (26.9.-2.10.2024) in South Korea - in the presence of Heinz Emigholz.
North American premiere of THE SUIT in the Currents section of NYFF62 - New York Film Festival (9/27-10/14, 2024).

Written and directed by
Heinz Emigholz
With
John Erdman, Susanne Bredehöft, René Schoenenberger, Laurean Wagner and Ueli Etter, Bodo Holland-Moritz, Käthe Kruse, Edda Kruse Rosset, Amanda Veirum, Abril Sánchez, Saul Rubio
Camera
Heinz Emigholz, Till Beckmann, Jonathan Perel
Camera Assistants
Alejandro Aguilar Escamilla, Nemoani Vital
Editing
Till Beckmann, Heinz Emigholz
Sound Recording
Jesús Omar Elizalde Blancas, Ueli Etter, Andreas Reihse
Music
Kreidler
Ringtones
Andreas Reihse
Sound Design & Mixing
Christian Obermaier, Jochen Jezussek
Art Director
Ueli Etter
Art Assistants
Carla Wayne, Abril Sánchez, Valeria Annemick
Mural Ornaments
Eugenio Cusi Bourlon
Hortensia 87 Staff
Yonic Juarez Ramirez
Assistant Director &Line Producer
Valeria Annemick
Grading, Postproduction & VFX
Till Beckmann
Producers
Heinz Emigholz, Jonathan Perel, Claudio Zilleruelo Acra, Julián Antuñano, John Erdman
Produced by
Pym Films & Taller Tritón

Poems
Des Menschen Bett (1911) by Franz Werfel
Ferne der Geliebten (1911) by Alexander Solomonica
Nach dem Tode (1911) by Richard Weiß
Das Angenehme dieser Welt (1806) by Friedrich Hölderlin
Texts
Telephone Monolog and Feuilleton Specimen (1913) by Karl Kraus
Die Verlassenen (1931) by Walter Benjamin

Synopsis
That loquacious cynic known only as “Old White Male,” played by John Erdman in Heinz Emigholz’s 2020 film The Lobby (NYFF58), returns in this delirious, sci-fi-comic follow-up in which our fearless, joyless monologist covers an even wider spectrum of human absurdity as he wrestles with the biggest question mark of all: The Future. Smarting from his last experience making a movie with “that nobody of a director,” which he’s told was “rejected by a once-famous film festival” for its alleged misanthropy, Erdman is this time joined by a caustic, endlessly philosophizing German filmmaker (Susanne Bredehöft) and a robot version of himself from the past (visualized as his own disembodied, portable miniature head). Shot in Berlin, Malta, and Mexico City, but set mostly in his bunker-like home, The Suit gives Erdman ample room to expound upon cinema, the corporeal vs. the digital, the apocalypse, architecture, health and nutrition, and what it means to see and be seen in a world that’s increasingly turning inward. Texts include everything from Walter Benjamin to Nelly Furtado, and nothing is sacred. (NYFF)

Filmed in Berlin, Nadur & Mexico City, May–October 2023.

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