AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT is a warm, engaging and often humerous celebration of an anti-trend, namely the comeback of 'analogue' in our increasingly digital lives. It follows its likeable anti-hero – a Viennese biologist who happens to be the world's leading (and only) expert on spider eye muscles – in his intrepid endeavous to save the world's last Polaroid factory.

The documentary – shot on 35mm – is an invitation to fall in love again with tangible, real things, and asks the question of just how digital and technocratic we can stand society to become.

Insta Stories, streaming, Twitter, e-books and 24h social media availability – the hype and drive towards the complete digital makeover of our daily lives is being challenging for more and more people, who experience a yearning for authenticity and real values opposed to alternative facts. Digital Detox and slow food are growing trends; analogue photography, vinyl, handwriting, paper books and homemade products are having a renaissance.

In his documentary, filmmaker Jens Meurer (who produced one of the first all-digital cinema films, RUSSIAN ARK) meets people who took a stand against the digital tide when the rest of us were still salivating over our first smartphone. No one more so than IMPOSSIBLE's very own Don Quixote, Florian "Doc" Kaps, who in 2008 staked his entire wealth and career on rescuing once iconic Polaroid, just when everyone else in the world felt analogue was over for good. Needless to say this went terribly wrong … at first.

AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT is a sensuous and entertaining film about the worldwide phenomenon: The world's re-discovery of 'analogue' as a counter-movement to what the New York Times described as 'the tyranny of convenience'. A tactile slow, deep breath in our ever-faster existence. Filmed on 35mm, and with a soundtrack recorded live by a forty-piece jazz orchestra, IMPOSSIBLE is a theatrical (sic!) documentary telling the inspiring story of an analogue visionary underdog who never stopped believing that the impossible must be possible.

Direction: Jens Meurer

Script: Jens Meurer, Franziska Kramer

Production: Jens Meurer

Co-Production: Phil Hunt, Ralph Wieser, Compton Ross

Cinematography: Bernd Fischer, Torsten Lippstock

Editing: Andrew Bird, Michael Nollet

Original Score: Sascha Peres

Cast: Florian Kaps

Original Title: AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT

Original Languages: English, German, Italian

Film Production Countries: Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

Biography of the Director/s
Berlin-based producer and filmmaker Jens Meurer started as a local reporter and photographer at the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, Sciences-Po in Paris and Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. He has always worked internationally, at first directing documentaries in the Soviet Union, South Africa, Israel and the US, and then producing in almost every European territory, as well as the US, Africa and China.

His feature film productions include Oscar-nominated THE LAST STATION, Paul Verhoeven’s BLACK BOOK, RUSSIAN ARK and critically acclaimed CARLOS, which received a Golden Globe in 2011. Among others, he worked on Irvine Welsh's FILTH with James McAvoy, Ron Howard's glamorous racing drama RUSH, medieval thriller BLACK DEATH starring Sean Bean and Jalmari Helander's Finnish action comedy BIG GAME starring Samuel L. Jackson.

Egoli Tossell Pictures is the feature film production company he shares with fellow producer Judy Tossell.

Meurer's first love, however is documentaries. 1995 he received the European Documentary Award of the Year from the European Film Academy. PUBLIC ENEMY (1999) premiered at the Venice Film Festival. In 2015, he returned to documentaries with AN IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT, ZAUBERBERG and the upcoming Brexit comedy SEASIDE SPECIAL.

Instant Film is the production vehicle for these personal projects.

Production Company:
Instant Film UG
Jens Meurer
Karl-Marx-Allee 138
Berlin, 10243, Germany
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +49 17643443698

World Sales:
Autlook
Salma Abdalla
Spittelbergasse 3/14 I A
Vienna, 1070, Austria
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +43 6702087881
Website: https://www.autlookfilms.com/