Ambiancé

Ambiancé was an unreleased experimental film directed by Swedish director Anders Weberg.{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/longest-movie-trailer-ambiance-not-exist/|title=The Longest Movie Trailer Ever Is For A 720 Hour Film... That Doesn't Exist|website=Screen Rant|date=November 26, 2023|first=Megan|last=Hemenway}}{{Cite web|url=https://collider.com/ambiance-720-hour-long-movie/|title=The 720-Hour Movie With a 72-Minute Long Trailer|website=Collider|date=June 19, 2023|first=Rhianna|last=Malas}}

The film was expected to have a running time of 720 hours (or 30 days) and initially had a projected release date of 31 December 2020.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dagbladet.no/2016/04/18/kultur/sverige/film/kunst/anders_weberg/43912048/|title=Svenske Anders lager 30 dager lang film - traileren er på sju timer|website=Dagbladet.no|date=18 April 2016|access-date=2016-04-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/video-72-minute-trailer-released-717973|title=[VIDEO] 72-Minute Trailer Released for Longest Film Ever, 'Ambiance'|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=11 July 2014|access-date=2016-04-19}} Once the film's initial screening was completed, Weberg would destroy the only existent copy of the entire movie, which he said made it "the longest film made that doesn't exist".{{Cite web|url=http://www.thelongestfilm.com/|title=A M B I A N C É – a 720 hours long film by Anders Weberg|website=The Longest Film|access-date=2016-04-19}} He has also stated that this was his final film. It would have been the second longest film ever made after Logistics.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8273150/|title=Logistics (2012)|website=IMDb}}

Development and release

Weberg has stated that he made Ambiancé as a protest against the re-creation of old, classic films.

In 2016, Weberg claimed to have completed 400 hours of footage, and that in order to complete the film by its release date he must film 7 to 8 hours of raw footage each week.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ambiance-720-hour-long-movie-by-anders-weberg-gets-short-seven-hour-trailer-1555519|title=Ambiance: 720-hour movie by Anders Weberg gets short 7-hour trailer|website=International Business Times UK|date=19 April 2016|access-date=2016-04-19}} Weberg released two trailers for the film. The first of which was released in 2014 and is 72 minutes long, and the second trailer in 2016 which is 439 minutes (7 hours and 19 minutes) long, consisting of a single take with no cuts.{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/article/ambiance-trailer-longest-film-ever-made-30-days-20160417|title='Ambiancé' Trailer: Longest Film Ever Made (30 Days) Reveals Seven-Hour Teaser|last=Nordine|first=Michael|website=Indiewire|date=17 April 2016|access-date=2016-04-19}} He had stated that he would release a 72-hour trailer in 2018, but that never came to fruition.{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/ambianc-the-worlds-longest-ever-film-gets-a-seven-hour-trailer-a6989561.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160419012516/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/ambianc-the-worlds-longest-ever-film-gets-a-seven-hour-trailer-a6989561.html |archive-date=2016-04-19 |url-access=limited |url-status=live|title=The world's longest ever film gets a seven hour trailer|website=The Independent|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-04-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/trailers/news/a791015/this-movie-trailer-is-over-7-hours-long/|title=This movie trailer is over 7 hours long|date=2016-04-18|website=Digital Spy|access-date=2016-04-19}}

Although Ambiancé was scheduled to screen on 31 December 2020, this never happened.

On 3 January 2021, Weberg posted on his Twitter, as well as on the official site for the film, the phrase "C'est fini", which is French for "It is finished". The same phrase was used in the description of the film's trailer in relation to Weberg quitting directing after having finished Ambiancé.{{Cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/160627722|title=Ambiancé - First short TRAILER - 7 Hours 20 Minutes in one take - by Anders Weberg}} Weberg's own website lists the film in its filmography, listing a runtime of 43,200 minutes, which totals to exactly 30 days.{{Cite web|url=https://weberg.se/|title=Anders Weberg}}

References

External links

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Category:Swedish avant-garde and experimental films

Category:2020 films