Nekoč v Posočju
- Documentary-Fiction Film
- 90' 10''
- 2024
- Slovenia
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Synopsis
The film tells the story of the Old Faith in the Soča Region. While the time of the religion’s origin remains unknown, the only documented fact about this is that in 1331, the bringers of a new religion (Christianity) came from Čedad, initiating a violent Christianisation of the Soča region. This was a long and extremely violent process.
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The biggest problem in making this film was what to shoot for 90 minutes of image if none of what this book is about exists anymore.
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Although the remote, mysterious world of the Old Faith is difficult to relate to today, the one element of Once Upon a Time in Soča Valley that is particularly successful in how intensely it makes it accessible to us, are the sound layers that Boštjan Kačičnik has masterfully combined into an indivisible and expressive whole.
We wish to highlight Ema Kugler’s Once Upon a Time in Soča Valley for her directorial choices, which, in the absence of lore and material from the location, create a living monument to a pagan past that has been erased by the cruelty of Christianisation.
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Comitee: Živa Emeršič, Petra Seliškar, Nina Blažin Explication
Močna tema z inovativnostjo v pripovedovanju (uporaba animacije, 3D). Film odpira temo staroverstva, ki je posredovana samo z ustnim izročilom ter edino knjigo, kjer so zbrana pričevanja že davno umrlih starcev, ki so to izročilo hranili v ustni obliki. Po mnenju komisije bi projektu koristilo, da se na začetku vpelje vodnik Silvo, ki pove v kamero, da se je staroverstvo ohranilo samo skozi pričevanje, ter da se tujcem, ljudem kot smo gledalci, o tem ne sme govoriti. Nato film odide v avtoričino abstraktno raziskovanje staroverstva. Domišljene odločitve glede načina snemanja (neostre silhuete, bližnji posnetki predmetov), izvirnost animacije, uporaba 3D vodi gledalca na pot po nečem magičnem, mističnem, zelo skrivnostnem svetu. Tovrsten film bi v gledalcu vzbudil atmosfero, tudi čustvo, začudenje, radovednost in ga napeljal na razmišljanje o naši neznani zgodovini. Zanimanje za staroverstva, staro magijo, okultizem in podobne zadeve je prisotno po vsem svetu, zato bi tak film zagotovo vzbudil pozornost v slovenskem in mednarodnem prostoru.
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