ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
fiction short film - 2025 - 15 minutes
At an art exhibition, the heavily overweight brother of the artist falls asleep. People freak out over what to do with him.
Gilles celebrates his thirty-fifth birthday with the finissage of his exhibition of contemporary nude photography. His heavily overweight brother Fred falls asleep drunk on a couch in the back room. After he is woken up by Gilles and realizes that someone has painted “Art has no borders” on the back of his head, he pretends to be unconscious in front of the party guests - which in turn sets off a cascade of rescue attempts and he is ultimately evacuated from the exhibition by a fire department crane.
Producer: Max Köhler
Cinematography: Sebastian Ganschow
Production Designer: Patricia Lisiuk, Sina Kempe
Editor: Christopher Hans
Cast: Burak Yigit, Nico Ehrenteit, Hakan Orbeyi, Emanuela von Frankenberg
Costume Design: Maja Pesa
Camera Operator: Johannes Ziegler
Steadicam: Johannes Ziegler
1st AC: Tsvetomir Loukanov
2nd AC: Jonas Sohn
Gaffer: Gregory Chobanyan
Color Grading: Simon Hardegger