SYNOPSIS:
2007/ France/ Canada / French (with English subtitles) / Colour / Documentary / Digibeta
Directed by: Hasko Baumann
Produced by: Edda Baumann von Broen, Bart Simpson
Edited by: Martin Eberle, Maxime-Claude L’Ecuyer
Original Score: Karl Bartos
French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time. He achieved his greatest fame as Moebius - not so much a pseudonym as an alter ego.
MOEBIUS REDUX is a stunning HD trip that takes the viewer inside the visionary mind of a legend. Building on Giraud’s compelling pictorial language and featuring a stellar cast of participants including the artist himself but also Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee, American comic book artists Jim Lee (X-Men) and Mike Mignola (Hellboy) as well as Alejandro Jodorowsky and Dan O’Bannon (ALIEN), the film goes on a mind-bending tour of imagination past, present and future.
Ex-Kraftwerk legend Karl Bartos created the soundscape for the film.
“What makes Moebius Redux extraordinary, especially on a big theater screen, is the way in which director Hasko Baumann integrated artwork into the movie. The movie is filled with layers of eye-popping art. During an interview with Giraud, the background slowly fills with an overlay of an illustration from the artist that is significant to what he's telling us.” – Cinematical
Hasko Baumann
Hasko Baumann has been a writer for almost a decade. He’s well-known for his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure, neon-lit territories: comics, horror films, science-fiction, pulp and B-movies. He’s scripted a number of projects and directed features on cartoon fairs and comic conventions, covered horror film-making and made friends with directors such as John Carpenter.
He’s directed a number of documentaries for avanti media and is also working on SCREEN TERROR, an exhaustive documentary about horror films. In 2006 Baumann received the Adolf Grimme award as director of the documentary series INTO THE NIGHT.