SILVANOVA cine school 2007: i am the stage of the cinema

Trying to Describe Oneself (Tentatives de se décrire), Boris Lehman, BELGIJA, 1989-2005, 165'
How it is possible, through film, to describe oneself and describe others. With the camera as mirror and third eye. At first, a collage-like combination of letter-writing, investigation and journey, something between documentary and feature film. Finally, a portrait of Boris Lehman from 1989 to 1995, part II of Babel.
The Artist's Salary (Le salaire de l'artiste), Jacqueline & Laurent Veuve, ŠVICA, 2000, 60'
From 1989 to 2000, Jacqueline Veuve, together with cameraman Milivoj Ivkovic, followed the life of a young artist, her son, Laurent Veuve who lived in New York with his family.
To these 11 years of filming are added some extracts from a short film of 1968 about Laurent, then aged 7, and a sequence in 1986 done by Pascal Chevalley for the Télévision Suisse Romande. Rapid success followed by failure forced the painter to reconsider his life choice and drove him to his present activity in Switzerland.
The Heart's Nebula (La nébuleuse du coeur), J. Veuve, ŠVICA, 2005, 90'
A trip through the heart. A poetic, moving, cruel, ironic, at times a cynical trip. A trip that takes us deep into the heart of the film maker, into her aches, her joys, her medical problems, among them the placing of a pacemaker. It gives her an excuse to take a closer look at other hearts: the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the small mummified heart of Louis XVII and its weird wanderings, the heart of a transplantee.
Camera - Man: OM produkcija (predstavlja Slobodan Valentinčič)
THE DISLOCATED THIRD EYE SERIES, OM produkcija, SLOVENIJA
Let's travel through time and space. Our eyes are in an excellent condition.
OPERATION MAMMOTH, Jurij Meden, SLOVENIJA, 2006, 29'
A virtual walk-through a forgotten film archive.
Family Diary
Birth/Mother (Tarachime), Naomi Kawase, JAPONSKA/FRANCIJA, 2006, 43'
Naomi Kawase never knew her mother; she was raised by her grandmother Uno. In the spring of 2004 Naomi Kawase gave birth to her son Mitsuke. Shortly after, her more than ninety year old grandmother passed away. With her distinctively perfected video expression, through which Naomi Kawase has been recording and exploring the porous membrane which lies between her personal universe and the world around her, delicately intertwining fiction and documentary, tenderness and violence, the director binds together both life-changing events into a single meditation on life, death and the indescribable impressions evoked in us when recognizing the cyclic nature of our existence.
Svyato, Viktor Kosakovski, RUSIJA, 2005, 33'
“Svyato” means both “happy, clear, joyful,” as well as “considered holy.” But Svyato is also the short form of Svyatoslav – the nickname of the two-year-old subject of this film. For the first time in his life, Svyato looks in the mirror. Kossakovsky calls Svyato a film about “self-cognition and loneliness.
“A baby can be surrounded by love; parents can play with him and teach him things, but no one can help him with the most important questions. Who am I? With a question like that, you are on your own. You can read a lot of books about love or God, but in the end, you are the only one who can answer the question as to whether they exist or not.« - V. Kosakovski
Paradise Not Yet Lost, Jonas Mekas, ZDA, 1979, 96'
»Filmed in 1977, edited in 1979. These reels of my film diaries contain the film 'notes' taken during the calendar year 1977, arranged chronologically. The film is divided into six parts. The first part takes place in New York. We see a lot of home life and the city. We see a lot of our daughter Oona whose third year of life this is. Some other subjects: Peter's Concert (Peter Kubelka); A visit to Marie Deren (Maya's mother); St. Patrick's Parade; Spring in Central Park; etc. The second, very brief part, takes place in Sweden, visiting Anna Lena Wibom. The third part takes place in Lithuania. Myself, my wife Hollis, and our 2 and a half year old daughter Oona visit my mother on the occasion of her 90th birthday. Oona meets her young cousins, we drink home made beer, we walk through the woods, gather mushrooms and wild strawberries, we fool around. The fourth part is Austria, visiting Peter Kubelka and Hermann Nitsch in Prinzendorf. We taste Hermann's wine, we talk to Peter's donkeys, we visit Pater Nicolaus in Kremsmuenster, and then we go to Italy, with Peter, in pursuit of Michelangelo's wine, Canaiola. The sixth part is back in New York; a visit to Willard Van Dyke, upstate; Oona's third birthday; a fire on Broome Street; more home scenes; the beginning of winter storms.” - J. Mekas