Highriders
Four men, one fun ride. They rig up and dismantle, turn round after round. They allow people to fly up into the air and look down on the earth, hurl visitors high into the night sky and back again.
None of the visitors has any idea what happens behind the scenes. The film tells a story of people who need each other and perhaps love each other, but can’t say any of that to each other.
Cast
- himself
- Frank Herrmanns
- himself
- Cedric Reinartz
- himself
- Dustin Knieriemen
- himself
- Marcus Herfs
Highriders
Johann Schilling
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2023
- Language
- dt. OF m. engl. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 55min
1.85:1, Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Fliegende Bauten
Director & Crew
Johann Schilling
Born in 1999 in Bielefeld. Studies Directing at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg. Active as an artist and director.
Filmography
| 2020 | Live action role play | Kurzfilm | |
| 2021 | Helga | Animationskurzfilm | |
| Da ist Musik drin | Web-Serie | ||
| 2022 | Wo Busse schlafen gehen | Kurzdokumentarfilm | |
| Die Astronauten von Feuerbach | Kurzdokumentarfilm | 2022 | |
| 2023 | Fliegende Bauten | Dokumentarfilm | 2023 |
“The project’s starting point for me was the question of who the workers behind the dazzling illusory world of fairground rides and fairgrounds are, and the desire to tell their stories. After all, they are usually cheap laborers who work for little money under precarious conditions.
Ultimately, the film deals with the shared loneliness of people who have found meaningful fulfillment and family structure in their devotion to a showman’s life. Toxic images of masculinity and degradation inform their bonds and raise the question of why they still seem to need each other. We devoted ourselves to this conflict, which is literally fought out at drop height—their work is highly safety-relevant—and tried to trace the individual group members’ personal motivation.”
Johann Schilling
- Director of Photography
- Benedict Uphoff
- Editor
- Elena Liv Felderer
- Sound
- Moritz Peter
- Sound Designer
- Elias Gürtler (Add. Sounddesign)
- Music Composer
- Kilian Oser