Villages on the Stara Planina Mountain used to be full of life; these were places where different cultures and customs would meet. Now, only silence remains. According to the 1948 census, the village of Boljev Dol used to have 251 inhabitants. In July 2008, 249 people had left, according to the count. The rest of the world just forgot that two people are still living there.
Also in this combined programme
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Rounding Off
An anthropological film which looks at how the occupants of ‘functional’ homes have re-appropriated them through daily use and making changes. -
Celluloïd Composite
Cinema stretched to its limits. An interdisciplinary experience which paradoxically celebrates the end of celluloid! -
Appunti sul lavoro a Napoli
Excerpt from a longer mixed-media film on working conditions in the region of Naples. An unconventional project for an uneasy subject. -
Cipher Screen
3-screen live art performance piece which harnesses the mechanisms of film and cinema, both random and controlled. With sound artist Mike Cooper, who -
Nice Movie
A personal reinterpretation of the holiday movie genre and an ironic and pungent critique of how exotic imagery is being conditioned more and more by -
Rivières
We are in Marseille, the sun is rising and life seems to flow peacefully. Passers-by participate in the film, noises resound all around. With electro- -
Birmingham Ornament
As with the Russian avant-garde of the twenties, this Russian ‘parallel cinema’ short film deals with symbols and metaphors.
Film details
- Country of production
- Serbia
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 15'
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
