Dodging Raindrops – A Separate Reality
Cyrill Lachauer
Dodging Raindrops – A Separate Reality is an episodic experimental film, in which documentary and staged scenes intertwine in a mythic-apocalyptic narrative. The film begins in Los Angeles und retraces the field trips into the Southwest assumed to have been taken by the controversial anthropologist Carlos Castaneda, a founder of the New Age movement. Taking up the anthropological concept of othering, the film casts its subjects as others inhabiting another side, another reality and another opposite. In doing so, Dodging Raindrops – A Separate Reality weaves a web of ostensible truths and untruths, of legends and utopias, of historic incidents and visions.
Protagonist
Eureka Break, Rafael Lopez García, Scott Thomas Lowe, Drawz Eric Romero and friends, S. from Fresno, Ferdinandus Ludovicus VanEeten
Crew & Production
Editor Antje Engelmann
Narrator and narrative adviser „Barrit“ Arthur Harriman
Sound Design and Mix Gábor Ripli
Color Grading Unai Rosende
Post production coordination Michel Balagué
Mastering and Postproduction Volte Film
Narrator recorded by Robert Willis
Whispering Matze Görig
Film Processing Spectra Film & Video, Los Angeles
Film Scan Korn Manufaktur, Berlin
Filmed during an artist in residence at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
Funding and support
Produced with generous support from Ingvild Goetz, Sammlung Goetz
Markus Hannebauer, fluentum Collection
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
and in cooperation with Berlinische Galerie,
Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst
Flipping the Coin Films Cyrill Lachauer, 2017
