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Vollmer: Happy Crying Nursing Home

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HAPPY CRYING NURSING HOME
Niklas Vollmer in collaboration with Lisa Paulsen and introducing Tannus Vollmer
     

Live Stream
30 minutes
2005

Synopsis: With an almost frightening intensity, videomaker Niklas Sven Vollmer captures the enveloping void of fatherhood in "HAPPY CRYING NURSING HOME." In penetratingly honest detail, Vollmer charts the feelings of loneliness, jealousy and tenderness, the bitter, complex cocktail of despair and love that define his relationships to his child, his partner—and his camera.

Distribution: V Tape – Toronto, Ontario Canada

 

Selected Screenings/Awards:

Cinequest Viewers’ Voice Competition (Invitational Competition)
Documentary Reframed: Process, Politics & Aesthetics (Canada)
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Dallas Video Festival
FLEX FEST (Florida Experimental Film/Video Festival)
Great Lakes Independent Film Festival – Experimental Runner Up
United States Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival – Best Short
Trenton Film Festival – Experimental Cinematography Award
Southern Fried Flicks Film Festival – 2nd Place Documentary
University Film & Video Association – Experimental Juror Awad
Society for Cinema & Media Studies – 2007 National Conference