SUTURA ∙ a music film about healing

After a traumatic brain injury, a singer realizes on her way into the operating room, that she can’t remember the lyrics of her own song anymore. This song is her highest treasure. In the moment of the narcosis, she receives unexpected help. An irrational path leads into the secret realm between death and life.
(med.:) A sutura is a type of fibrous joint which only occurs in the skull.

Cast: Rilli Willow, Sabrina Ma, Jie Rui Zhang, Zoé Cartier, Bettina Thiel, Jan Gerdes, Christian Banzhaf, Ulf Adler, Tatjana Pieper, Benedikt Bindewald, Jobst Liebrecht
Sound - Volker Wendisch, Daniel Weingarten
Camera - Philipp Grieß
Camera Assistant and Gaffer - Gregor Reinbold
Color Grading - Stefan Reiss
Costume - Sabine Gallei
Costume Assistant - Birte Sieckmann
Make-up Artist - Wiebke Reich
Production Assistant - Ortrun Stanzel, Alessandro Lanzillotti
Consigliere, Location manager - Susanna Poldauf
Prop Master - Alessandro Lanzillotti
Set Photographer - Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk

Written, directed and edited by Andreas Rochholl

Music-Excerpts from:
Sonata for Solo Cello by György Ligeti
Zoé Cartier - Cello
Composed 1948-1953, Music rights: Schott Music, Mainz

Etude-Tableau op. 39 No.1 by Sergei Rachmaninoff
Jan Gerdes - Piano
Composed 1916, Music rights: Boosey & Hawkes, Berlin

Havanna
Music and lyrics by Rilli Willow
Rilli Willow - vocals, Zoé Cartier – Cello, Jobst Liebrecht - Guitar, Benedikt Bindewald - Violine
Music rights: Rilli Willow, Tel Aviv

Percussion Improvisation
Sabrina Ma - Framedrum, Crotales, Drums

Supported by the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Senate Chancellery, Cultural Affairs
With support from Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
Thanks to: Elisabeth-Catharina Oerding, Maja Slansky, Silke Schönberg, Ralf Martens

Produced by KADMOS Produktion and Zeitgenössische Oper Berlin
http://kadmos-produktion.de/sutura/html