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Keeping Balance

2015 · 6 min

A quiet, intimate portrait of a young woman finding comfort in repetitive motion, gentle and sad but quietly hopeful.

Directed by: Bernhard Wenger
Genres: Documentary

Overview: Denise, a 20 year old girl visits nearly every day the Viennese 'Prater' amusement park to take some rides with the electronic 'Tagada' carousel because it helps her to get over her difficult past.

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Directed by: Bernhard Wenger
Genres: Documentary

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Tone: melancholicstrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: trauma
healing
isolation
identity
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	2
Realism	9
Romance	0
Tension	2
Darkness	4
Complexity	3
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Bernhard Wenger
Cinematography: Rupert Höller
Runtime: 6 min
Country: Austria
Languages: German

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