“Three days before an actual commercial shoot, my producer, Jakob Rühle, and I realized that we had a camera, a location, an actor, a pair of Lederhosen and a few beers to brainstorm,” says Warwick, who’s repped for commercials in the US by O Positive. “Suddenly Jakob yelled ‘objectophelia!’ and the idea was born.”
Filmed in the Italian Dolomites, “Ritornerai” features a man in Lederhosen who appears from behind a bush and enters a Grand Hotel, where he begins to touch the beautiful haptics and textures of the whole place. Seemingly overtaken by objectophilia, we observe him enjoying the sensory experience deeply and emotionally. He enters the big ballroom and sits by the piano where he utters the film’s only line, “ritornerai.” He approaches a giant painting of a landscape and eventually we discover that he is actually in the painting.
“This film has inspired many different interpretations,” Warwick says. “People let their minds wander a bit. Love it or hate it, I really like that it doesn’t want anything from you. For that reason, maybe it’s a little more artful, because people can take away whatever they want.”
CREDITS
Idea & Development: Daniel Warwick & Jakob Rühle
Starring: Alexandros Giannou
Director: Daniel Warwick
Cinematographer: Joao Padua
Production Designer: Maruxa Alvar
Prod Company: Zauberberg Productions
Managing Partners: Andrea Roman-Perse, Frank Siegl
Exec. Producer: Juliane Ellrich
Producer: Jakob Rühle
1st AD: Danijel Krizanovic
Editor: Benjamin Campbell
Editing House: The Quarry
Colorist: Sam Gilling
Color Studio: BaconX
VFX Company: bEpic
Post Producer: Lion Graf
VFX Supervisor: Bastian Konradt
VFX artist: Paula Blesa
Music: Luke Howard, ‘Portrait Gallery’
Licensing: SC Publishing, Inc., DBA Secretly Publishing
Casting: DeeBeePhunky, Berlin
Casting Director: Tobias Krautstrunk
Service Production Company: Bas Production
Service Production EP: Andrej Caruso
Service Line Producer: Milica Jovanović
Service Prod Manager: Alja Primec
1st AC: Sabina Smodej
Wardrobe Stylist: Tina Tanko
Shot on location at Grand Hotel Carezza Residence
Special Thanks to Giandomenico D‘Affuso
Director: Daniel Warwick
Cinematographer: Joao Padua
Production Designer: Maruxa Alvar
Prod Company: Zauberberg Productions
Managing Partners: Andrea Roman-Perse, Frank Siegl
Exec. Producer: Juliane Ellrich
Producer: Jakob Rühle
1st AD: Danijel Krizanovic
Editor: Benjamin Campbell
Editing House: The Quarry
Colorist: Sam Gilling
Color Studio: BaconX
VFX Company: bEpic
Post Producer: Lion Graf
VFX Supervisor: Bastian Konradt
VFX artist: Paula Blesa
Music: Luke Howard, ‘Portrait Gallery’
Licensing: SC Publishing, Inc., DBA Secretly Publishing
Casting: DeeBeePhunky, Berlin
Casting Director: Tobias Krautstrunk
Service Production Company: Bas Production
Service Production EP: Andrej Caruso
Service Line Producer: Milica Jovanović
Service Prod Manager: Alja Primec
1st AC: Sabina Smodej
Wardrobe Stylist: Tina Tanko
Shot on location at Grand Hotel Carezza Residence
Special Thanks to Giandomenico D‘Affuso
