Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

PAR DZIMTENITI

3 MEN AND A FISH POND

Laila Pakalnina, Maris Maskalans
Latvia, 2008, 52 Min
Vides Filmu Studija

Actually a matter of two films in one: they alternate and communicate, exchange quizzical glances on meeting before proceeding on their separate ways. The one film luxuriates in artful compositions of the fauna in this fishpond habitat – a series of miniatures and bizarre moments, water fowl of all hues and colours, sometimes merely suggested by a camera apparently freed of its shackles and determined to show what it can do. A cat (the secret link) leads the way to a cabin in the other film, the one about three men by a fishpond who lead real men's lives in this lonely landscape: hunting, fishing, eating, watching TV, tinkering, drinking, talking shop, occasionally inviting women round and later – free again – downing a few beers round the campfire. Frankly speaking, things are not that different in the animal world – or that's what the film suggests, with tongue firmly in cheek. And it's been a long time since we saw such beautiful animal photography.

(Catalogue Leipzig, 2008)

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Maris Maskalans
Kamera
Maris Maskalans
Ton
Anrijs Krenbergs, Arvids Celmalis
Schnitt
Laila Pakalnina
Produzent
Uldis Cekulis
Produktion
Vides Filmu Studija
Kontakt
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Laila Pakalnina, Maris Maskalans

Laila Pakalnina, Maris Maskalans - born 1962 in Liepāja, Latvia. Studied television journalism and directing in Moscow.

Movies
UN (1988, short, doc)
DOMS (1991, short, doc)
VELA (1991, short, doc)
ANNA ZIEMASSVETKI (1992, short, doc)
BAZNICA (1993, short, doc)
PRÃMIS (1996, short, doc)
PASTS (1996, short, doc)
OZOLS (1997, short, doc)
KURPE (1998, Cottbus 1998)
TUSYA (2000)
TËTË GENA (2001, short)
MOSTIETIES! (2001, short, doc)
MARTINS (2002, short, doc)
PITONS (2003, Cottbus 2003)
BÛS LABI (VISIONS OF EUROPE) (2004, Cottbus 2004)
BUSS (2004, doc)
LEIPUTRIJA (2004, short, doc)
TEODORS (2006, short, doc)
ÜDENS (2006, short)
KILNIEKS (2006)
UGUNS (2007, short)
AKMENI (2008, short)