DocAlliance: Hybrid Films
Look at this list of films presented by DocAlliance:
Life in Denmark (Jørgen Leth)
Cooking History (Peter Kerekes)
Blind Loves (Juraj Lehotský)
Alda (Viera Čakányová)
Ex Press (Jet Leyco)
The Wolf from Royal Wineyard Street (Jan Němec)
The Perfect Human (Jørgen Leth)
Love from Above (Petr Marek)
I can warmly recommend you to take a film historical look at the two films by Jørgen Leth, “Life in Denmark” (1972) and “The Perfect Human” (1967), both of them have been inspiring new generations of filmmakers in Denmark, the latter being the starting point for the film he made with Lars von Trier, “Five Obstructions” (2003). Jørgen Leth celebrated his 80year birthday this year, he is still going strong, working on a biographical film, working title “I Walk”.
“Blind Loves” (2008) by Juraj Lehotsky with Marko Skop as the producer was one of my favourites, when I was working with the training program Ex Oriente being able to see how the director found solutions that quite rightly can be called hybrid. As can for sure another masterpiece, “Cooking History” (photo) (2009) by Peter Kerekes.
The rest of the package I have not seen – yet. Here is the intro made by the DocAlliance, that again shows generosity and sense of artistic quality:
“Is it possible for a documentary film to capture reality in a way that is undistorted? Is it possible to truly see reality reflected in a documentary film? Where is the boundary between documentary and fiction? In our selection focused on hybrid films, we examine the borders of fictional worlds.”
Available until August 6.
