PLAYLAND USA
A poetic time travel fantasy through the imagined history of the United States as a modern fairy tale world, along the traces of our longing for illusion and escapism - caught between fact and fiction, driven by the ubiquitous reality shifts in the US.
Director: Benjamin Schindler
Screenplay: Benjamin Schindler, Jan Wilde
Camera: Benjamin Schindler
Editing: Yana Höhnerbach, Benjamin Schindler
Music: Jan F. Kurth, Lukas Truniger
Sound Design: Lukas Truniger
Commissioning Editor: Sabine Rollberg (WDR/arte), Jutta Krug (WDR)
Production manager: Silke Abendschein
Producer: Levin Hübner, Benjamin Schindler, Fabian Wallenfels
Documentary | 88 Minutes | Germany 2019
A production of the zeitgebilde Filmproduktion & Hübner/Wallenfels in co-production with WDR in cooperation with ARTE.
Funded by:
Film- und Medienstiftung NRW
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony
Saxon State Agency for Private Broadcasting and New Media
Festivals:
Max-Ophüls-Award 2019
Manifesto IFF Amsterdam 2019
New York Independent Film Festival 2020
New Filmmakers Los Angeles 2021