EURORAMA 8

One Europe of peoples in ethnographic film festivals

Trento 27th – 28th April 2014

Filming the other,  filming the intangibile

To the far east of Europe: Russians and Romanians horizons

Eurorama8, promoted by the Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina, presents 11 award winning films which in 2012-2013 took part to some of the most important European festivals of ethnographic film: Sibiu (Romania), Ljubjana (Slovenia), Yekaterinburg (Russia), Belgrade (Serbia), Boltaña (Spain), Vienna (Austria), Tartu (Estonia), Edinburgh (Scotland), Bilbao (Portugal), Kratovo (Macedonia), Djakovo (Croatia). The  first section, under the  caption "Filming the other, filming the intangible", recounts of some elusive aspects of our society, such as psychological distress, religious feelings, the time of feasting and everyday life, the joy of creativity, the harmony of gestures and the making of improvised poetry. The second section "In the far east of Europe: Russians and Romanians horizons” has two films set in Romania, a country still struggling with the painful changes of the post-socialist era. The other films are set on the far edges of the Russian continent, from neighbouring Azerbaijan, through to the suburbs of Moscow and the remote villages of Siberia.

PROGRAM:

Sunday 27th April 2014

Cinema Multisala Modena (viale S. Francesco d'Assisi, 6 – Trento)

EURORAMA 8.1

Filming the other,  filming the intangibile

15.15                     Astra Film Festival 2013 (Sibiu, Romania)

(Student Award)

Matthew’s Laws, by Marc Schmidt, Basaltfilm, Netherlands, 2011, 72 min.

The Director films his childhood buddy, Matthew, who suffers from autism and desperately tries to create order in the chaos around him. Followed closely in his privacy, Matthew's explosive confrontations with the outside world are alternated with observations and personal confessions. Little by little, the film unravels the complex way of Matthew's thinking and shows the catastrophic consequences his disorder may eventually have for him.

17.15                                     NAFA Nordic  Anthropological Film  Association Festival 2013    (Bilbao, Spain)

Alto do Minho, by Miguel Filgueiras, Museu do Traje de Viana do Castelo, Portugal,  2012, 49 min.

The film shows us scenes of Northern Portugal in rhythmic succession. It shows the many facets of the life in the lowlands and the gentle highlands at the Minho, which is shaped by the rhythm of the Atlantic Ocean, and religious faith, by its past and its present . It is an impressionistic portrait of daily life and festivities in the mountains.

                                RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film 2013

                                (Edinburgh, Scotland)

(Material Culture and Archeology Film Prize)

Rockerill: Rekindling the Fire,by Yves Mora, Belgium, 2011, 53 min.

Five years ago, one of the oldest industrial buildings of Charleroi - ‘les Forges de la Providence’ - was saved from demolition being bought by two citizens: Thierry Camuy and Mika Hell. Together with some close friends and artists, they turned it into a place of alternative creation which became a symbol of renaissance and image rehabilitation for the whole region.

19.15                     Days of Ethnographic Film 2013

(Ljubjana, Slovenia)

La Carrera, di Assunta Nugnes e Francesco Costabile, Multidea s.r.l., Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico della Sardegna, Italia, 2013, 78 min.

The Northern Coastline of Sardinia. Castelsardo. During the Holy Week it becomes the stage of a complex and fascinating ritual. The undisputed stars are the singers of the Santa Croce Congregation. A brotherhood. A group of singers. A group of men. They stop time with an unique aim: to go out on the streets and sing about the Passion of Christ. Their voices echo through the dark alleys while they try to surpass the boundaries of everyday life and their own humanity in order to be redeemed through their voices. It is a world of men, but above the men’s voices there is one more voice, the ethereal, the virtual, the voice of Our Lady.

21.15                     Espiello International Festival of Ethnographic Documentary 2013                          (Boltaña, Spain)

                                (Special Mention of the Jury)

Bertsolari, by Asier Altuna, Txintxua Films SL, Spain 2011, 85 min.

The bertsolari is the improviser of verse sung in the Basque language, l’euskara. This oral tradition has managed to evolve and adapt to the times, connecting with the younger generation and bringing together ten thousand people at the final of the last championship. An austerely aesthetic art that surprises in this era of spectacle and special effects.

Monday 28th April 2014

Sala Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto (via Garibaldi, 33 – Trento)

Ore 10.00            “Carnival King of Europe” in France: film by Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina realized for the exhibition “Le monde à l’envers”, Marseille, Musée des Civilisations d'Europe et Méditerranée, 2014.

                                Giovanni Kezich, Antonella Mott, Michele Trentini

Cinema Multisala Modena (Viale S. Francesco D'Assisi, 6 – Trento)

EURORAMA 8.2

To the far east of Europe: Romanians and Russians horizons

15.15                     Ethnocineca 2013 (Vienna, Austria)

Rosia Montana. Town on the brink, by Fabian Daub, Bildfolge Dokumentarfilm, Germany/Romania, 2012, 78 min.

Roșia Montană has been thrown into a state of disarray ever since the arrival of a Romanian gold mining corporation with powerful Canadian shareholders. The corporation is planning on razing a large portion of the town and its surroundings to the ground in order to gain access to the rock there, which happens to hold the largest gold deposits in Europe. The people are poised to lose their homes, but a small group of inhabitants are battling against the Company and defending their homes with all they have.

17.15                     Russian Anthropological Film Festival 2013 (Yekaterinburg, Russia)

(Award for the Best Anthropology)

Mit kith and kin, by Rodion Ismailov, Russia-Azerbaijan, DC Film, 2012, 63 min.

10 year old Lolita goes for the first time to Azerbaijan, the homeland of her father. The girl wants to know her roots because a person ignorant of his roots is like a tumbleweed rolling wherever the wind drives it.

International Festival of Ethnological Film 2013 (Kratovo, Republic of    Macedonia)

In the light of memory, by Alyssa Grossman, Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, England, 2010, 40 min.

The film is shot in Cismigiu Gardens, one of the oldest public parks in Bucharest. This park is a central space attracting people from all walks of life, a place for social interaction and solitary reflection. Interweaving voices that recollect the past with glimpses of present-day scenes from the park, the film constructs a montage of stillness and motion, images and voices, landscapes and people.

19.15                     International Festival of Ethnological Film 2013 (Belgrade, Serbia)

(Award for the Best International Movie)

Voices from the Tundra, by Edwin Trommelen & Paul Enkelaar, Netherlands, 2013, 66 min.

Northeast of Siberia is the home of the Tundra Yukagirs, a nomadic people of reindeer herders. Only sixty three of them still speak the Yukagir language. Amsterdam linguist, Cecilia Ode, visits the Yukagirs in order to capture their language and preserve.

21.15                     International Ethno Film “Festival The Heart of Slavonia” 2013                                                 (Djakovo, Croatia)

(Golden Heart of Slavonia)

Summer with Anton,by Jasna Krajinovic , Dérives Productions, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, Belgium, 2012, 61 min.

Twelve-year-old Anton lives with his grandmother in a small house outside Moscow. It is summer vacation, and we watch Anton in his everyday life. One day, Anton grabs a gigantic backpack and pulls on some army pants. Just like most other Russian children from poor families, Anton will be spending the summer at one of President Putin's youth military training camps.

World Film Festival 2013 (Tartu, Estonia)

31-stHaul, by Denis Klebleev, Russia, 2012, 60 min.

The documentary revolves around the lives of Vitalik and Yuri, two native inhabitants of a remote Kamchatka village, who drive through dirt roads, to supply the region’s grocery stores with goods. A road movie, accompanied with sense of humor, that gradually introduces several characters and explores the depths of human relationships.

Во периодот од  23 – 24.07.2013 година во КЦ Магаза во Битола беше организирана проекција на документарни етнолошки филмови чиј автор е Јелка Пшајд, Етнолог виш кустос при „Помурски Музеј“  –  Мурска Собота, Р. Словенија.

Во рамките на овој настан беа презентирани вкупно пет етнолошки филмови и тоа:

$1          - Ме викаат „ременкаш“ – украсување на велигденски јајца(20 мин.);

$1          - Изработка на свадбени декорации – цвеќе од хартија (14 мин.);

$1          - „Телово“ – прослава на католички празник во село Богоина (21 мин.);

$1          - Изработка на свирчиња од керамика (8 мин.);

$1           - Печење на керамички садови (8 мин.).

Раководител на проектот беше м- р Стојанова Мери, Етнолог - виш кустос при НУ „Завод и Музеј“ – Битола, Р. Македонија.

Проектот беше финансиран од страна на Министерството за Култура на Р. Македонија, во рамките на Годишната Програма за култура 2013 год.