EVA NON PIACE

EVA NON PIACE is a fairytale set in a fictional city landscape paying tribute to the design
and aesthetics of the 80s, camp-culture and also to a variety of creative movements, such as ArtDeco and MemphisMilano. EVA embodies a declaration for love and diversity, a call for vitality trying to crush all functionalist doctrines whilst getting her hair done...

  • Martina Dimitrova
    Director
  • Martina Dimitrova
    Writer
  • Philipp Eichhorn
    Producer
  • Johannes Brüssau
    Key Cast
    "EVA"
  • Nicole Ratjen
    Key Cast
    "THE TRAMP"
  • Johanna Polley
    Key Cast
    "CATE"
  • Robin Jentys
    Key Cast
    "EDO"
  • Heidi Wagner ( Bodyguard 1 )
    Additional Cast
  • Lisa Wagner ( Bodyguard 2 )
    Additional Cast
  • Justin Ray Pecquet (Piano)
    Original Score
  • Elisabeth Sooss (Saxophone)
    Original Score
  • Rasmus Alexander Holm (Trombone)
    Original Score
  • Julian Schenk (Double Bass)
    Original Score
  • Johann Gottschling (Drums)
    Original Score
  • Martina Dimitrova
    Production Design
  • Johannes Greisle
    Director of Photography
  • Martina Dimitrova
    Costume Design
  • Ran Chai Bar-zvi
    Costume Design
  • Belle Santos
    Costume Design
  • Julian Wiesemes
    Edit / VFX / Color
  • Sebastian Sánchez
    Sound Mixing
  • Anya Grünewald
    Line Producer
  • Nadine Lehmann
    Line Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    EVA NON PIACE
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Music Video, Short, Student, Other
  • Genres:
    Art, Design, Silent, Slapstick, Queer, Drag, Comedy, Pop, 80ies
  • Runtime:
    6 minutes 55 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 6, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    English, Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    HD
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Martina Dimitrova

Set and Industrial designer Martina Dimitrova (1989) lives and works in Berlin. She studied Industrial Design at University of the Arts Berlin and deepend her knowledge in Spatial and Production Design during her following studies at the Filmuniversity Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF. During those years she fell in love with the visual language and lively and yet sometimes uncomfortable spirit of Memphis Milano and Ettore Sottsass works. In the end all this attention she invested leads to her final project EVA NON PIACE.

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Director Statement

The short film is telling the story of EVA - a celebrity living in Italy in the early 80s and a character I am working on since almost 3 years. The short bundles all of my works affiliated to this type of design. Furniture, Costume, Characters, Graphic and last but not least a whole outside movie set is based on postmodern principles and on an eclectic and liberal way of designing. An hommage to the infamous Ettore Sottsass, Robert Venturi, Matteo Thun and so many more. What if this group of postmodern designers and architects had an more popular influence on our daily lives? How would our society and surrounding look like?
Adapting the well-known Memphis philosophy not just on the set and interior of the film Eva Non Piace, but also on the fashion styling of our cast, as well as bringing various artist together for the project I am trying to give an possible answer to that particular question.
Thanks to the contributions of graphic artist Camille Walala and Japanese illustrator Yoko Honda an even more extended view on postmodernism and the 80s spirit is being created and brings the entirety into the concept of infamous EVA.

Let's dive into a world of postmodern kitsch in an unknown time and place and may our stiff and serious world be liberated by stylistic freedom and acceptance for all kinds of derailments.