A Mean Time Between Failures 2019 (on its festival run)

The surreal short film portrays the story of a couple, who have lost their daughter in a car accident and must relive this tragedy, after Mary - the wife - forgets the traumatic experience after a brain operation. The film follows Frank - the husband - who tries to find and reconnect with Mary in both reality and the dream world.

"A Mean Time Between Failures" is a short graduate thesis film of Alison Burns and Daniel Menzel within the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt Bachelor of Arts program. 

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Awards / Screenings
​Finalist in The Lift-Off Sessions 2020 (Pinewood Studios, UK)
Official Selection in Rome Prisma Award 2020 (Rome, Italy)
Nominated for Hessischen Hochschulfilmpreis 2019 (Frankfurt, Germany)

Cast

Director + Writer
1. AD + Producer
Assistant Producer

​​Director of Photography
Camera Assistants

​Gaffer

​Set Manager
 Production Sound
Set Decorator
Makeup Artist
Practical FX
VFX Supervisor
Catering
Set Driver

Editor
Colour Grader

Sound Design + Mixing
Music

​Making Of Footage

J. David Hinze, Sarah Blake, Johanna Miller, Gerrit-Milena Falker, Miriam Zeller

Alison Burns
Hyung Guhn "Hugo" Yi
Marie Marxmeier
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​Daniel Menzel
​Tim Brunkhorst, Anja Giele, Sophie Krieg, Janina Lutter, Lukas Materzok, Charlotte Paulsen,  Johannes Tran
​Darius Sobolewski, Fabian Geisbühl, Georg Gilstein, Sophie Krieg, Lukas Materzok 
​Naima Bouzouida, Simon Hauck, Ekaterina Mais, Hyung Guhn “Hugo” Yi
​Philipp Bodor, Marieke Czogalla, Dave Lowbay, Alex Simonov, Nico Spahn
​Sophia Glänzer
​Charlotte Burns
​Philipp Heinrich 
​Simon Hauck
Hanna Möbus, Lea Schliebusch
​Young-Chae Lim

​Alison Burns
Benjamin Meyer
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Till Gerneth
David Kafka
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Carolin Glomp

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