Two DocNomads films premiere in Visions du Réel, Switzerland
Aleksandr Vinogradov´s “Call Me Chaos" and Robin Petré´s “Pulse” premiere at the 47th Visions du Réel International Documentary Film Festival held in Nyon, Switzerland, from 15 to 23 of April.
It is the first film festival participation for Petré and the first film competition for Vinogradov as his piece was selected to participate in the Medium Length International category. “I am extremely happy and surprised as my notification came after Robin´s. It is gratifying to have your work recognized. It helps the process of the new projects that I am working on right now”, said Vinogradov. “I am positively overwhelmed. I reckon it is a pretty good start,” shared Petré.
Visions du Réel is one of the most traditional film festivals in Europe, hosting an important film market for documentary films called Doc Outlook International as well as many activities for networking and training. Both students will attend the festival and present their films during the programed screenings.
Call Me Chaos
Belgium • 38' • French, English
When Floh, armed with her accordion, starts one of her songs on the Grand-Place in Brussels, she does so with raucous energy. She has an impulse of rebellion, the strength to go against an excessively established movement, “These mapped-out paths on which we have been placed”, dixit her song with the same name as the film.
Floh lives on the fringes, plays mainly on the tarmac itself and confronts reality head-on. For her, song is a cry, and singing is to fight. Part of the pure lineage of realist chanson, her songs are like a bandage for our souls, shaken by the dominant chaos. Like the songs of Edith Piaf, she anchors her lyrics in the gloominess of the day-to-day, the tensions of our society and the conflicts of the world. But Floh’s poetry is also woven with her personal stories and her dreams, illustrated and animated in the film. The filmmaker’s camera follows her, close, sensitively. The world thus appears in the background, dark and blurred. Floh’s freedom is as elusive as a breath, the inhalation of the accordion as it fills with air before continuing on her way.
Trailer: here.
Pulse
Hungary • 26' • Hungarian
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the undulating hills of southern Hungary. PULSE takes us there, showing life among 1,500 strong red deer and the people handling them. These encounters between man and animal turn into physical conflict, since the deer are essentially wild animals – they were caught in the forest and brought to the farm less than 30 years ago.
PULSE is a poetic, creative and experimental documentary playing on the line between raw reality and dreamy, sensorial experience. The film follows the beat of the rhythmic pulse transcending the deer farm – from the anxious, skittish deer to the people handling them to the electric pulse running through the fences separating the farm deer from the wild.
Trailer: here.