Becoming Outline

Innovative Cinema, AT 2024, DCP, 70 min, OmeU
Program: Wettbewerb Innovativ: Becoming Outline + Vorfilm

For a moment, father, mother, and daughter freeze into a tableau vivant. A voiceover recounts an episode from the life of the great-grandmother. Miriam Bajtala’s Becoming Outline is autoethnography, family constellation, and richly layered, complex self-portrait, all in one. Amateur actors play out scenes from the director’s childhood and adult life. The film runs through the stages of the family’s history of migration and social emancipation, individually and structurally.

Director: Miriam Bajtala
Script: Miriam Bajtala
Cast: Anna Kohler Frauenlob, Lotta Boesch, Matilda Lurf, Isabella Lurf, Jona Moro, Gwendolin Kovacic, Katrin Kröncke, Anat Stainberg, Thomas Hörl u.v.m.
Camera: Marianne Andrea Borowiec
Editor: Miriam Bajtala
Music: Stefan Németh; Zusätzliche Musik: Tumido, Nitro Mahalia, Rashim
Sounddesign: David Almeida Ribeiro
Producers: Miriam Bajtala
World Sales: sixpackfilm
Distribution in Austria: sixpackfilm
Funded by: BMKÖS – Kunst und Kultur
Stadt Wien MA 7
Land Niederösterreich Kultur
Otto Mauer Fonds
World Premiere: Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2024
Austrian Premiere: Diagonale '25
Production format: digital