The production of a film requires recording equipment and financial resources, if nothing else. Hellmuth Costard places these basic prerequisites at the centre of his film: using a Super 8 camera system he developed, he films himself as he tries to raise funding for his film project. This creates an unconventional experimental setup, which reveals how the economics, politics, technology, and aesthetics of filmmaking relate to each other – with the ‘great’ Godard being called up as a kind of chief witness.
Cast
Hellmuth Costard
Applicant
Hilka Nordhausen
Gallery owner
Andy Hertel
Painter
Werner Grassmann
Film producer
Herbert Jeschke
Friend
Hark Bohm
First Director
Wolfgang Treu
Unknown
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Second Director
Michael Ballhaus
Unknown
Harry Baer
Unknown
Horst Knechtel
Unknown
Andréa Ferréol
Unknown
Gisela Stelly
Unknown
Petra Nettelbeck
Unknown
Uwe Nettelbeck
Critic
Dieter Meichsner
Unknown
Rolf Hädrich
Unknown
Jean-Luc Godard
Guest