Landscape
Germany2003documentary60'Retrospektywa Sergeia Loznitsy (2018)
The camera is contemplating the winter landscape of a small town somewhere in Russia. Landscape is an experience where cinema borders with painting. The Bruegelesque scenery is slowly revealed to the viewer by the hypnotising work of the camera and enigmatic editing. We do not know too much about this post-industrial town, but an old Orthodox church among birches and rundown buildings are suggestive of its story. The atmosphere of waiting at a bus stop is interrupted with snippets of conversations, which make an account of the everyday life of the town’s residents.
- directed by
- Sergei Loznitsa
Ukrainian director of documentary and fiction films. In 1987 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. Between 1987 and 1991 he worked as a scientist at the Kiev Institute of Cybernetics. In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. He has been making documentary films from 1996, 16 of which won awards at numerous festivals. His fiction films include My Joy and In the Fog.
- script
- Sergei Loznitsa
- sound
- Vladimir Golovnitsky
- editing
- Sergei Loznitsa
- production
- Heino Deckert (Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion)
- Photo
