| OFFICIAL SELECTION / INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION | | FIDMARSEILLE 2009 | World premiere | | | |  | NIGHTTIME WITH MOJCA
Vlado Skafar | | SLOVENIA
2008
Colour
8 mm
35’
Original version
Slovenian
Subtitles
English
Photography
Vlado Skafar
Sound
Julij Zornik
Editing
Vlado Skafar
Production, distribution
Gustav Film
Filmography
OTROCI, 2008
PETERKA: LETO ODLOCITVE, 2002 |
| | With the advent of television, many people reckoned that the days of radio were numbered. What is a voice without a face, a laugh without perceptible gesticulations, music without visible animation and so, what little magic was left to retain listeners? It is this very space that Vlado Skafar has chosen to portray in his film made with the aid of basic materials. The pictures: shots of landscapes, cities, all very ordinary, of Slovenia. The sound: the kind of night broadcast where listeners are invited to intervene by way of a game: they phone in, ask for advice, complain, chat or try to flirt with the female presenter who remains invisible to the bitter end.
What is heard and what is seen – and that is the whole point of the film – do not match. Neither is out of frame of the other. Because the views are with wide angle lens and are therefore broadly general. As for the sound, it is in close-up, mouth and ear wide open and so near each other as to emphasize the radiant and serene character of a face and a body fantasized through the tone of a female voice, a young madonna, all-embracing in her benevolence. What about the out of frame then? Well, it is made up precisely of all these anonymous invisible existences vaguely perceived in the frame of the lens and fragments of autobiography in the sound. Monochrome colours verging on grey point to a gloomy despair accentuated by the telephone filter. Could it be that Mojca is the self-portrait in sound of a country?
Jean-Pierre Rehm |
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