A RECORD OF LANDSCAPE WITHOUT PREHISTORY
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Video│HD Video (16:9) │ 14’ 22″ │ color │ stereo │ 2020
An epistolary structural film inspired by the poetry of the surrealist and communist revolutionary Oskar Davičo. Set in a children’s health resort on the Adriatic coast, it generates a futuristic self-consciousness of a once-lively socialist landscape, about the desolate historical ruin it will have become.
A Record of Landscape without Prehistory indirectly relies on Davičo’s poetry, linking it to the lost future of a site on the Adriatic coast. An epistolary narrative based on documents – postcards from summer vacations, is placed at the site and told in a repetitive time circle. A circle, which is always a new subtraction in the medium of recording, is forgetting. This forgetting is not forgotten but desired since the medium itself records (digital), communicates (magnetic) and exposes (analog) human inability to preserve the memories and history.
Image editing: Doplgenger
Sound editing: Doplgenger
Production: Academic Film Center (SRB)
Co-production: Loose Associations (CRO)
Supported by: Film Center Serbia
