I AM FROM NOWHERE
(D, A, GB 2004) 80 mins / colour / Digi-Beta / 16:9
Dir.: Georg Misch
Producers: Gunter Hanfgarn, Johannes Rosenberger and Martin Rosenbaum
Funds: Filmfonds Vienna
Coproducers TV: ZDF/Arte, BBC, Slovak TV
FESTIVALS:
2003 Duisburger Filmtage
2002 Locarno Int´l Filmfestival
2002 Bratislava
2002 Hofer Filmtage
"Nowhere" is a tiny village called Miková, deep in the Ruthenian Carpathians of Slovakia. People her still fetch water from the well and every passing car is a sensation. This is the ancestral homeland of one Andrijku Warhola, a place so remote that his relatives there believed he was a painter and decorator – until they saw a TV programme announing the death of Andy Warhol. It seems to be pretty far from Miková to Manhattan, from Byzantine ikons to pop art and from Andrijku Warhola to Andy Warhol. The film will reveal that these two worlds have been inextricably linked ever since Warhol´s mother Julia Warhola emigrated to America, where Andy grew up.
The film is essentially about the Mikovan community itself, which includes other eccentric inhabitants as well as Warhol’s relatives. It is their stories that make the story of the film - their hopes, desires and dreams - because most of them aspire to live another life.