Take What You Can Carry
A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, Take What You Can Carry is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the company she keeps. A North American living abroad, Lilly aspires to shape an intimate and private place of her own while connecting to the world around her. When she receives a letter from home, it provides the conduit she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she’s always known herself to be.
Credits
Director and Writer
- Matt Porterfield
Editor
- Amanda Larson
DoP
- Jenny Lou Ziegel
Sound Design
- Gene Park and
- Danny Meltzer
Producers
- Zsuzsanna Kiràly and
- Matt Porterfield
Technical information
USA, Germany 2015DCP · 1 : 1.85 · 5.1 Mix ·
With
- Hannah Gross ,
- Jean-Christophe Folly ,
- Angela Schanelec and
- Gob Squad – Sebastian Bark, Mat Hand, Tina Pfurr, Sharon Smith, Laura Tonke, Bastian Trost, Simon Will
Festivals
- Berlinale – Shorts Competition ,
- Art of the Real at Lincoln Center ,
- IndieLisboa ,
- Maryland International Film Festival ,
- Melbourne International Film Festival ,
- Berlinale Shorts Go Abroad – Asia and India Tour ,
- La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival ,
- 2MORROW Zavtra International Film Festival ,
- AFI Fest ,
- Kurzfilmfestival Köln ,
- Diálogo de Cinema International Film Festival and
- Berlin Art Film Festival
Distributors
- Arsenal, Institut für Film und Videokunst ,
- Stadtkino Verleih and
- Grasshopper Film
Bio/Filmo Matt Porterfield
Matt Porterfield has written and directed three feature films, Hamilton (2006), Putty Hill (2011) and I Used To Be Darker (2013), all produced in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was born and raised. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Harvard Film Archive and has screened at the Whitney Biennial, Walker Arts Center, Centre Pompidou, and film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW, and the Berlinale (Forum, 2010 & 2013). Matt taught film theory and production at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art until 2021.
- Cuatro Paredes, short film (2021)
- Sollers Point, feature film (2017)
- Take What You Can Carry, short film (2015)
- I Used To Be Darker, feature film (2014)
- Days Are Golden Afterparty, short film (2011)
- Putty Hill, feature film (2011)
- Hamilton, feature film (2006)