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bye bye baby 

a film by Julia Boxler / 2018

 

camera Ana Catalá

editor Azamat Altybasov

sound Timothy Lalonde

Bye bye baby invites to an adventurous journey in Kazakhstan. This documental essay tells an autoethnographic story on the comeback of the protagonist in her country of birth – 18 years after the migration of the Kazakhstani-German family. Looking with the protagonist for her blurry post-soviet childhood memories, you can experience the country’s past as a subjective reflection of the present. It is a humorous experimental road movie, which dedicates itself not so much to nostalgia but rather discovers the now of this unknown country and explores contemporary constructions of memories, identities, and cultural history. 

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Bye Bye Baby was selected for the East Silver Market at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival 2018 in October and held it's national premiere at the Clique.Doc Festival (Central Asia Documentary Competition) on December 9th 2018 in Almaty/Kazakhstan. It got preselected by various film festivals and was also shown at the Festival of Russian-Germans Culture 2019 in Düsseldorf, got screened at the Red Square Festival Berlin 2020and was showcased in April/May 2021 as part of an art show at Pik Deutz art space in Cologne.

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Selected Press

ARTE

20.6.2023

Tracks East Roots: Woher kommst du – eigentlich? 

 

tasteslikeashes.de 

25.5.2021

O wie Burg

 

PiK – ‘Projektraum im Kunstwerk’

15.5.2021

Instagram artist talk during the group show “Вокзал для двоих. Bahnhof für zwei” curated by Lisa Klosterkötter & Elena Malzew, 1. Mai – 15. Aug. 2021 @ PiK – ‘Projektraum im Kunstwerk’, Cologne 

 

stadtrevue

25.03.2021

Impuls des Weglaufens

 

WDR COSMO Radio 

29.7.2019

Radio po-russki, from min 21.40

 

The Calvert Journal 

5.2.2019

'All you need is a camera': can documentary film bring change to Central Asia?

 

Vlast.kz 

27.11.2018

Dream of Казахстан

 

DAZ 

28.12.2018

Julia Boxler: „Mir war klar, dass ich in eine andere Realität komme“

 

NTK 

6.12.2018

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