Szczecin European Film Festival 2015: 23.10.2015, Friday, 17:30
Akademia Sztuki, pl. Orła Białego 2 (where is that?)
Blok tematyczny: European Competition
In this year’s European Competition we will see 32productions from 20 countries, presenting a review of the newest world documentary cinema.
Admission 10zł
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Production: GRC 2014
“Interlude” is a poetic short documentary which can be considered as an essay film. The main theme is the mountain Pelion, the hook-like peninsula between Aegean Sea and Pagasetic Gulf. Through an elliptical narrative, use of keywords, and absolute immobility of the camera, the film attempts an aesthetic observation on space and time in between stillness and motion, based on director's subjective point of view.
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Production: DE 2014
As in many cases, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their heads depicted in profile. Faces with no expression, formal gestures. In the background, a little bit of everyday life: the hard, square, stone architecture arises from ochre, brownish, blackish mush of colour or mud. A demonstration of the function of the central perspective. An idealised representation of a tropical paradise. Strangely, there's no absurdity in this.
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