An Impossible Project

2020
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

377

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Florian Kaps in An Impossible Project (2020)

Humans are analogue. We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticity. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world's last Polaroid factory - just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. An entertaining underdog story of a very modern Don Quixote, shot on 35mm. And a sumptuous invitation to fall in love with real things again.

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Humans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge ... Read allHumans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world's last Polaroi... Read allHumans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world's last Polaroid factory - just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. An entertaining underdog sto... Read all

Director
- Jens Meurer
Writers
- Franziska Kramer
- Jens Meurer
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IMDb RATING

7.0/10

377

YOUR RATING

Director
- Jens Meurer
Writers
- Franziska Kramer
- Jens Meurer
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 1 win total

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9omarcoz

The adventurous life of a quite successful dreamer!

The "impossible project" of saving Polaroid is still a commercial success, but Doc Florian Kaps was rapidly ejected by the new company's owners (He jokes himself: like Steve Jobs previously from Apple Computer Inc.). Next, Facebook has nothing to do with instant picture! They appeared completely by accident in his new challenge about restoring a beautiful, but abandoned classical Grand Hotel. That "single website company with 10'000 employees" hosts in the middle of their new headquarters a tiny so-called "Analog Research Lab", in fact a kind of museum for mechanical printing devices (or even a zoo for theses almost extinct species). But actually, Mark Zuckerberg never entered that door and never made any notable use of it.

6GormanBechard

So wanted to love this...

While it is beautifully shot, and Doc is a wonderfully crazy character, everything in the film felt, well, underexposed. Even Doc. I'm not sure we ever understood anyone's real motives. The film felt very much all over the place, without ever really going anywhere. It's missing the details we need to get to the heart of who these people are, and why they do what they do. And had I not read the Bonanos book on Polaroid, I would have been completely confused as to what was going on with the main story in this film. Also...the most interesting character in this story, the one who truly gave it birth, Edwin Land, is completely glossed over. It just felt like a missed opportunity. (Saw this at DOC NYC 2020 film festival.)

8kosmasp

Back to the ... not future

No pun intended - I do understand that some people do like older things. And with analog ... I mean there is a lot to like. Of course there is also a lot to not like. Digital will not live forever either - but it seems to be able to withstand things that analog has issues with. Also money ... I mean how can you have and maintain all those things ... that no one is making anymore ... an attempt to keep everything alive ... a documentary that shows many side - maybe even one that makes you overthink certain things.

There is a feel good vibe to it - just watch it and be entertained. Well researched and well edited - this is a salute to a bygone era ... but also to humans and their will to keep searching for whaever they hold dear to their hearts ...

10elainec_1997

Reclamation and Reconnection

An Impossible Project invites us to reconnect with our senses in this increasingly senseless world through the reclamation of analogue media and technology. It does not make the easy claim that "analogue is better than digital" or vice versa, but rather asks how we may find a balance between digital and non-digital in our rapidly digitising world. It presents us with an opportunity to switch off, step back, and reassess our relationship to digital technology in order to keep ourselves grounded in the physical realm. Especially in the midst of the Covid-era, stuck on Zoom or scrolling social media for hours a day, the film reminds us of the value of tactility, tangibility and the human connection that comes from analogue.

10CyKiK