newsletter #3
Kaunas international Film Festival 2012
Funny how reality and fiction can sometimes be Interview: Golf Stream under the both so surreal. More often than ever filmmakers Iceberg seem obsessed by surrealism nowadays. So we decided to go on a quest for a quest for examples and reasons behind such a phenomenon, as the program at Kaunas International Film festival is filled with perfect examples. First, we caught up with Latvian legendary director Yevgeny Pashkevich; took a deeper look at a Canadian experimental “orgy” called Keyhole; and Interview by Ugne Gudzinskaite (Lithuania) marvelled at the extreme reality in a Swedish Yevgeny Pashkevich new film, Latvia´s 2012 Oscar entry, talks about his first feature after a 23 prison documentary like no other, At Night I Fly. years break, telling us three stories from different periods, connected by character of Lilith, the mythical first wife of Adam. READ MORE
At Night I Fly
Keyhole
Review by Zowi Vermeire (The Netherlands)
Review by Donata Juskelyte (Lithuania)
The walls are thick. The fences are long. The sentences are high. At Night I Fly, by Michel Wenzer, is a documentary about the inmates of New Folsom prison. However, this time the main theme isn’t the violence and the horrible events that can take place in such a place, but how prisoners spend their time in isolation. It focuses on the Arts-in-corrections project, in which prisoners get the possibility to express themselves through art. READ MORE
Twisted Canadian director Guy Maddin created, in his latest movie Keyhole, a surrealistic, experimental and completely bizarre Odyssey of a man called Ulysses. The name of the main character perfectly describes the form of this movie. Just like James Joyce’s stream of consciousness technique shaped in his famous novel “Ulysses”, Maddin manipulates us with strange images and a style of epileptic editing, rather than with experimental prose. READ MORE