GoSee loves… ‘Forbidden Colors’ by Director Jakob Harms and DOP Noah Schuller presents colorful sneakers in a dystopian world, against state-sponsored homophobia – the short film for LGBTIQ rights was awarded at the FIRST STEPS
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In the spec spot ‘Forbidden Colors’ by the two advertising filmmakers Jakob Harms and Noah Schuller, which runs backwards, we see a young woman provoking a discriminating regime with colorful sneakers in an attempt to save her partner. Filmed in a wintery Moscow, the film depicts a regime in which diversity and homosexuality are prohibited.
At first, we were not sure about publishing the film on YouTube : “In the end, we’re sitting here in Germany, looking over to Russia where a law has been made that punishes homosexual propaganda. We didn’t want to point the finger at Russia alone though. After all, the LGBTQ+ community faces even greater suppression in other countries,” Jakob tells GoSee.
Which is why the filmmakers point out in the credits that homosexuality is punishable by law in 72 countries and people are discriminated worldwide because of their sexual orientation.
The film has just received an award at FIRST STEPS – The German Young Talent Award in the category COMMERCIAL. The jury tells us why : “Colorfully mottled running shoes are on fire. Behind them, we see the gray dreariness of an urban backdrop. Full of curiosity, we follow the events of the characters in the opposite direction of the causal chain. And we soon notice : This isn’t about the shoes at all…”
Find further work by Jakob Harms on jockis.com.
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