Maren-Kea Freese's ZOE was her award-winning graduate film as a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin that perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium. Just as the Berlin School is low-key and stoic (and Freese does share a similar lean toward the anti-dramatic), ZOE is laconic, yet near hallucinatory. "Fascinating portrait of one of the 'broken characters' that director/author Freese is so fond of." (Moving Pictures). ZOE is the main character and a 26-year-old itinerant making an occasional deutschmark as a D-jane, but she's basically biding her time in the city. She struggles to maintain casual friendships and messy romantic relationships alike while hoping to learn more about her estranged dead mother. A film in lurid colors set to the slo-mo trip hop rhythms dictating the characters' lives.
ZOE perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.
Maren-Kea Freese's ZOE was her award-winning graduate film as a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin that perfectly encapsulated the lives of drifters in Berlin at the turn of the millennium.
Just as the Berlin School is low-key and stoic (and Freese does share a similar lean toward the anti-dramatic), ZOE is laconic, yet near hallucinatory. "Fascinating portrait of one of the 'broken characters' that director/author Freese is so fond of." (Moving Pictures).
ZOE is the main character and a 26-year-old itinerant making an occasional deutschmark as a D-jane, but she's basically biding her time in the city. She struggles to maintain casual friendships and messy romantic relationships alike while hoping to learn more about her estranged dead mother. A film in lurid colors set to the slo-mo trip hop rhythms dictating the characters' lives.