Elli is an android and lives with a man she calls her father. Together they drift through the summer. During the day they swim in the pool and at night he takes her to bed. She shares his memories and anything else he programs her to recall. Memories that mean everything to him but nothing to her. Yet, one night she sets off into the woods following a fading echo… The story of a machine and the ghosts we all carry within us.
Direction
Wollner's unflinching gaze makes skin crawl without showing much.
Acting
Lena Watson's uncanny valley performance—human enough to hurt, blank enough to disturb.
Cinematography
Pool water as mirror and prison—sickly beautiful Austrian suburbia.
Director
Sandra Wollner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Austria's 'new weird' cinema alongside Seidl and Hausner—domestic spaces as sites of European unease.
Wollner cast an adult actress specifically to destabilize viewers: your unease is the point. The film weaponizes casting against comfortable moral categorization.
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