Bones on Holiday
The filmmakers follow two women for years, each grappling with the topic of dying for different reasons. In doing so, she confronts her own grief. The relative certainty of imminent death and the hope for self-determination, as well as the emotional ambivalence of those affected and those who will be left behind, are the central themes of this film.
Cast
- Gabi Kohn, Mortician
- Gabi Kohn
- Verena Herb, Artist
- Verena Herb
- Translator
- Pit Van De Loo
- Marco Ammer, Funeral Orator
- Marco Ammer
- Editor
- Bjela Prokovsky
- Michael Stock, Filmmaker
- Michael Stock
- Carsten Cierocki, Nurse
- Carsten Cierocki
- Marco Ammer, Funeral Orator
- Maria Schuster
- Peter Knoch
Bones on Holiday
Natalia Vitovtov, Michael Stock
- Documentary
- Production Country / Year
- Germany 2024
- Language
- de. OF mit en. UT
- Format
- DCP, Color, 85min
1.78:1 (16:9), Discrete 5.1
- Original Title
- Knochen auf Urlaub
Director & Crew
Natalia Vitovtov
Geboren 1990 in Nowokusnetzk/Russland. Ausbildung zur Mediengestalterin Bild und Ton. Während der Ausbildung Volontariat in der Postproduktion einer TV-Produktionsfirma, in der sie anschließend als Post Production Supervisor und Conforming Artist sowie als Deputy Head of Post Production arbeitet. Tätig als Regisseurin, Producerin und Postproducerin.
Filmography
2018-2024 KNOCHEN AUF URLAUB (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm HOF 2024
Michael Stock
Born in 1986 in Steinhöring/Munich. Training as an actor, internships and engagements in research, script development, as an assistant in production and directing. Active in various areas on numerous feature films.
Filmography
1992 PRINZ IN HÖLLELAND, Spielfilm
1994 INZEST- EIN ALPTRAUM OHNE ENDE
1995-99 LIEBE SÜNDE, TV-Beiträge
2005 FUNKING DIFFERNT, Dokumentar-Spielfilm
2008 ICH LIEBE DICH, Dokumentarfilm
2013 HEALING BY SHARING - A TRIP THROUGH KENYA, Dokumentarfilm
2010 POSTCARD TO DADDY, Dokumentarfilm
2016 KILOMBO CAMP, Kurzdokumentarfilm 2024 KNOCHEN AUF URLAUB (Co-Regie), Dokumentarfilm HOF 2024
“Bones on Holiday is an 84-minute no-budget documentary in which everyone involved has been working more or less for nothing for several years. As with our film Postcard To Daddy, we turned necessity into a virtue and produce films from our own resources and with support/donations from friends. Due to this independency and a small team, we managed to capture intimate, caring, and important shared moments.
This film created itself out of and alongside our lives, in jobs, in daily routines, in shorter and longer journeys, as well as from the questions about accompaniment and the fear of loss that we all explored. The whole ambivalence of ‘dying’ and the unpredictability of which story life will write in the end led us to a unique experience. We never really conceived this film, rather, it revealed itself to us, piece by piece, like a puzzle over the last six years.”
Natalia Vitovtov and Michael Stock
- Director of Photography
- Michael Stock
- Editor
- Michael Stock
- Franziska Menz
- Sound
- Helen Neikes
- Valerie Hermann
- Sound Designer
- Helen Neikes
- Executive Producer
- Natalia Vitovtov
- Producer
- Natalia Vitovtov
- Leo Schöning
- Michael Stock