Boris Hars-Tschachotin | 6mins | Germany | 2011

WORLD PREMIERE

Blank reproduces the sterile conditions of a genetic laboratory of molecular medicine. The room, the bodies and cells of the animals are subject to the strictest controls; everything has been created specially.

In the film you will pass through a six-minute animal behavoir experimental setup and participate on different levels. This experimental short-film reconstructs from an artistic perspective an experiment in which mice with Alzheimer’s disease fail – even after repeated training – to remember where the island is concealed under the surface of the white water in a white tub. They are used to test whether new substances can repair the defects in the brain.

SCREENING SCHEDULE
Controlled Experiment
8:00pm  Monday, October 17, 2011
The Bell House

PRODUCTION CREDITS
Author/Director | Boris Hars-Tschachotin
Director of Photographie | Jörg Johow
Cutter/Compositing | Johannes Bock
Sound Design | Uwe Bossenz
Professors Voice | Hans-Michael Rehberg
Weisscam Team | Simone Becker, Christoph Skofic
Producer | Boris Hars-Tschachotin
Associate Producer | Jochen Hennig
Production | Liquid Blues Production

DIRECTOR BIO
Boris Hars-Tschachotin is a resident of Berlin since 1993, holds a PhD in history of art from Humboldt-University in Berlin, and was recently a fellow in residence at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, focusing on drawing in production design and the process of creating cinematic space. Initially interested in development and pre-production, he got his start in film 1999 at Studio Babelsberg as a researcher and location scout for directors such as Jean-Jaques Annaud, Simon Moore, István Szabó, Richard Donner, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff, and Tom Cruise, working on behalf of Paramount Pictures and Hallmark Entertainment.

He is the founder of Berlin-based Liquid Blues Production, which concentrates on realizing visual content from feature films and documentaries to interactive art. His first film, the award-winning short fiction “Lurch“ (“Lizzard“, 2001), was featured at over 50 film festivals; and his latest, a feature-length documentary film exploration of the fraught ways in which his own Russian-German family’s history tracks the tortured history of the past century. “Sergej in the Urn“ premiered last year at the Achtung Berlin Film Festival and won best German documentary at the Munich Film Festival 2010.