Patricia Borsch

A visual and poetic documentary portrait of Funkenmariechen Patricia Borsch. A Funke is a young carnival dancer performing throughout the West German carnival season. Patricia Borsch lives in the very small village of Windhagen, 50 kilometres south of Cologne.

Director: Stian Smestad (hellostian.com)
DOP: Askild Vik Edvartsen
Producer: Stephan Vens Trigger Happy Productions
Agency: Heimat, Berlin.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Germany
• Carnival
• documentary
• short
• film
• Future
• Shorts
• Stian
• Smestad
• futureshorts
• future shorts
• film'

[bpsmash]

de rheinische frohnaturen....in germany known as retards

[Xcelerator1337]

yes we germans are crazy xD no, i hate carnival :/

[HellomynameisN]

what.... the....... fuck

[420xhope]

fanny



[nikkijaneallison]

I don't have a complain about this video at all. I liked carnival especially when I was a kid. I think this is one of those random videos that shows some part of random people's lives. Great for these people being watched and paid to do the things they like and enjoy a lot.

[sanso1]

@mustardbee That's indeed a nice question there - but it's clear that this one can't be answered that easily ;)

I lived here all my life and as i grew up i learned that a lot of people use the event to drink as much as they want. 3 days in a row - that maybe funny, yes! But especially the "Funkenmariechen" are forced to show happy faces. They - and other people from this event - maybe not happy even if they show it like this.

[bpsmash]

@mustardbee hey des war nur nen spaß, fast meine ganze verwandtschaft wohnt in düsseldorf ich wurde schon oft genug genötigt dort hinzugehen also hab ich mir des mal so erlaubt :)

[belpix]

@mustardbee I looked at vocabulary, really, you are right. Funny that to reproduce one letter 'щ'  German language uses 7 consonants:"schtsch", uh-oh.

[beingfooled]

Interestingly cut, but without breath. I like it, though.

[Gauldoth06]

@Palmiik Yea but still...even if i think about that english was created by german tribes...todays german is MUCH worser than todays england... ;-)

[sanso1]

@icnclt

This is the problem.... and a hell lot of people don't see that it is just a mask of happiness... and not REAL happiness

[pabloslam]

@FoKTank I just mentioned the german thing as an answer for those people living in germany not liking the video, I guess the editing is what makes this video so special

the quality of the image