The Wooden Room
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The protagonist of The Wooden Room is a documentary director who lives in an isolated hut in the forest with his equally stoical wife. The director is obsessed with recording marginal events in life. The closer to these events he comes with his camera, the more he becomes involved; in the end, he also falls victim to them. The film, with no dialogue and almost no sound, is an experimental meditation on the complex, continually changing relationship between a film maker and his subject. Yevgeni Yufit: ‘There are many works of art dedicated to ecology and nature preservation – the natural surroundings of people. But the ecology of the human psyche that is influenced by contemporary circumstances is a subject that is usually ignored by art – and by cinema in particular. In its own way, The Wooden Room studies the negative influence of civilisation on human consciousness.’
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Film details
- Country of production
- Russia
- Year
- 1995
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 65"
- Medium/Format
- 35mm
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