Slnko v sieti [The Sun in a Net] (Štefan Uher, 1963)
May
9
lunch
An old man, enclosed in a simple, wooden window frame, eating his lunch. DP: Stanislav Szomolányi.
Slnko v sieti [The Sun in a Net] (Štefan Uher, 1963)
May
9
lunch
An old man, enclosed in a simple, wooden window frame, eating his lunch. DP: Stanislav Szomolányi.
“Don't you recognise me?”Drak sa vracia [Dragon's Return / The Return of Dragon] (Eduard Grečner, 1968)
Aug
9
Smokey Bear Day
Drak (Radovan Lukavský), a Caucasian man with a rough looking face and an eyepatch over his left eye. The landscape behind him is mere blurs. DP: Vincent Rosinec.
Drak [“dragon” or “devil”] returns to his village. No one understands why he came back, or where he has been. The villagers postulate smugglers and there's other drunk nefarious thoughts, but for sure they know that with the potter, the draught returned. In an unspoken ritual sung in old tongues, the grey women summon the rain. The forest, dry as tinder, has taken the cattle, all there is. Drak knows where the animals went and a deal is struck.
– Drak
Drak sa vracia speaks in mere whispers and smoky greys. The main characters – the #fire, smoke, pottery, and composer Ilja Zeljenka's often silent motif – weave their wordless presence throughout the ancient landscape; that same landscape that carved itself into the locals' being.
Drak sa vracia [Dragon's Return] (Eduard Grečner, 1968)
Aug
6
Eva (Emília Vášáryová) stares into the fire on which a small anthropomorphic cooking vessel is mounted. DP: Vincent Rosinec.