Landscape
Germany2003documentary60'
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
He was born in 1964. He grew up in Kiev (Ukraine),and in 1987 graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic with a degree in Applied Mathematics. In 1997 he graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature filmmaking. He has been making films since 1996, and by now he has directed 26 award-winning documentaries and 4 fiction films. Sergei Loznitsa continues to work on both documentary and fiction projects.
- script
- Sergei Loznitsa
- sound
- Vladimir Golovnitsky
- editing
- Sergei Loznitsa
- production
- Heino Deckert (Ma.ja.de Filmproduktion)
- Photo
