Production

Wasteland

2010
.
experimental
,
26'
Pustara
About the Film

"""Pusta"" or wasteland (after the Hungarian word ""puszta""), designates a spacious, level steppe in Hungary; it is a spacious, level terrain which is not worked, but used for raising livestock, horses and pigs in the open. The puszta is a form of organised, planned, collective habitation, specific to Hungary, Slavonia and Baranja, constructed in 18th and 19th centuries on the needless Slavonian plains owned by well-to-do aristocratic families. The wasteland was always inhabited by those who had no land, settlers, restless spirits, wanderers unable to stay in one place, but there were those who stayed in the wasteland for generations. The film was shot with a handheld camera and consists entirely of subjective shots. The main “character” in the film is light. Light reveals figures and objects without burdening the composition of the frame or using artificial lighting. Simultaneously with filming the refraction of light, the spreading of sound was recorded. And most importantly – silence, because silence in the pustara, on that “island” without a visible boundary between sky and earth, in that prison without fences, is louder than the noise of any city. "

Festivals, awards, special screenings

• 5. One Take Film Festival, Zagreb, 2010.• Rencontres Internationales ParisBerlinMadrid, 20102011.• 7. ZagrebDox, 2011.• Documenta Madrid, 2011.• Europe SEEFest (South East European Film Festival), 2011.• 20. dani hrvatskog filma, 2011. – nagrada za najbolju kameru (Vedran Šamanović)• 12. Mediteran Film Festival, Široki Brijeg, 2011. – posebno priznanje• 7. 25 FPS, 2011. – Hrvatski fokus• Videoex Film Festival, Zürich, 2013. – program "Contemporary Croatian: Site specifics"

Director
Ivan Faktor
Screenwriter
Ivan Faktor
Cast
Camera
Vedran Šamanović
Editing
Dubravka Turić
Music
Animation
Sound Design
Lana Deban
Costume Design
Set Design
Producer
Vera Robić-Škarica
PRODUCTION
Croatian Film Association
Co-producer
Co-production
No items found.