LANDSCAPE
Portrait
DOUBLE FEATURE
After exploring the neighbourhood the camera begins to zoom in on the bus stop serving a small village. Repeated pans survey the faces of the people waiting, as if they are caught in some infinite loop. Topics of conversation are things like alcoholism and domestic violence, illnesses and the Chechen war. An everyday situation, staged in such a way that an audio-visual landscape of faces and dialogues spreads out before the viewers’ eyes. Then the struggle to get a seat on the bus. While many of his works contain no dialogue, Loznitsa makes unusually intensive use of the human voice in this, his first, colour film.
PEYZAZH / LANDSCHAFT
DEU 2003 / 60 min
Director: Sergei Loznitsa
- Cinematographer: Pavel Kostomarov
- Sound: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
- Producer: Heino Deckert
- Production Company: ma.ja.de - Germany
- Rights Holder: Deckert Distribution - Germany
DOUBLE FEATURE
After exploring the neighbourhood the camera begins to zoom in on the bus stop serving a small village. Repeated pans survey the faces of the people waiting, as if they are caught in some infinite loop. Topics of conversation are things like alcoholism and domestic violence, illnesses and the Chechen war. An everyday situation, staged in such a way that an audio-visual landscape of faces and dialogues spreads out before the viewers’ eyes. Then the struggle to get a seat on the bus. While many of his works contain no dialogue, Loznitsa makes unusually intensive use of the human voice in this, his first, colour film.
After exploring the neighbourhood the camera begins to zoom in on the bus stop serving a small village. Repeated pans survey the faces of the people waiting, as if they are caught in some infinite loop. Topics of conversation are things like alcoholism and domestic violence, illnesses and the Chechen war. An everyday situation, staged in such a way that an audio-visual landscape of faces and dialogues spreads out before the viewers’ eyes. Then the struggle to get a seat on the bus. While many of his works contain no dialogue, Loznitsa makes unusually intensive use of the human voice in this, his first, colour film.
- Cinematographer: Pavel Kostomarov
- Sound: Vladimir Golovnitskiy
- Producer: Heino Deckert
- Production Company: ma.ja.de - Germany
- Rights Holder: Deckert Distribution - Germany