KINSKI SCREW

Faces tell a lot. They magnetize onlookers. Female and male principles intertwine in front of mountain panoramas. Werner Herzog coined the term "Kinski screw" for a technique of actors to swing into the frame. Klaus Kinski invented this specific pirouette. What goes on behind those storm beaten faces in our homage?

  • Dave Lojek
    Director
    ca. 150 shorts, selected for 333 festivals, 66 awards
  • Hermann Leitner
    Director
  • Hermann Leitner
    Writer
  • Dave Lojek
    Producer
    ca. 150 shorts, selected for 333 festivals, 66 awards
  • Hermann Leitner
    Producer
  • Vince Mell
    Key Cast
  • Martina Breinbauer
    Key Cast
  • Stefanie Rösner
    Key Cast
  • Elias Gäbler
    Key Cast
  • Rana Raad
    Key Cast
  • Hannes Fritzer
    Key Cast
  • Felix Blume
    Sound Recording
    loads of films
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    KINSKISCHRAUBE
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 1, 2015
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Shooting Format:
    DSLR
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Dave Lojek, Hermann Leitner

Dave Lojek loves filmmaking and belongs to the most prolific and most often selected directors with over 1645 screenings of his distributions at international film festivals worldwide. His favorite genres are comedy, parody, fantasy, romance, poetry, art and experiment. Dave also directs documentaries, dramas, portraits, sci-fi, and music videos. His works and distributions won 214 film awards. Dave Lojek graduated with an MA in English / American and Cultural Studies from Humboldt-University in his hometown Berlin.
In terms of content and style, Dave's poetic films are about magic, love, death, friendship, loneliness, artists, oddities, escapism, mythology and the everyday. Based on the Homo-Ludens-principle, Dave clearly focuses his often-cheerful work on the universal and timeless. His motivation for filmmaking is intrinsic.
As independent producer, Dave created 178 movies in 26 cities in 12 European countries by 2021. Mr. Lojek hosts monthly open cinema screenings in Germany’s oldest cinema Moviemento and annual film workshops called KinoKabarets with his initiative KinoBerlino. Dave works as film distributor and president of a Film Association. The productions of APEIRON FILMS and KinoBerlino have been broadcast weekly since 2008 (ca. 11.000 times) on German TV and viewed online over 2 million times.

Selected Filmography of Dave Lojek

2021: FUCHS & PINGUIN
2020: OCCURRENCES OF QUESTIONABLE SIGNIFICANCE
2018: I CAME FROM THE FUTURE • SNITCH • THE LAST SUPPER • KEEPER
2017: ARACHNE • ALEX AND SASHA
2016: SAMA SŁODYCZ • DAS SPRICHWÖRTLICHE GLÜCK • REFUGEE POETRY
2015: FRUWAJĄCA FORTUNA • KINSKISCHRAUBE
2014: THE PRINCESS STRIKES BACK • FILM KITCHEN
2013: HEK TICK TACK • PSYCHIC SUE • PARADISE BEACH • FOCUS POCUS
2012: TWO TOO ODD • MADEMOISELLE NIMSI • SICK CITY
2011: TRUST • BELIEVE • METEORITES
2010: DER MIETER • PERSPECTIVE • MARIES STIMME • FLUSSAUFWÄRTS
2009: KIT & SUKA • MUSE • SERENDIPITY • INDECISION
2008: ROFL • ANGELS • PHOBIEN
2007: PROJEKTION • EVERMORE • FUTILITY • PELT PEOPLE
2006: PARLANDO
2005: DYSFUNCTION
1998-2000: SELBST UND FREMDBILDER IN DER WERBUNG Teil 1-3

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Director Statement

Climb up!

Our co-director Hermann Leitner is an Austrian radio moderator from Innsbruck, where the film was shot on the highest mountain.