Obzornik 63 – Vlak senc
- Short Documentary Film
- 39'
- 2017
- Slovenia
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The film tries to position and understand a particular image – a shred of video made with a mobile phone on the once famous Belgrade - Ljubljana rail-line, where refugees now travel not in couchettes but between the train's wheels. Newsreel 63 drifts into a visual investigation of railways and explores their historical, social and political narrative.
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The new Found Footage Award is granted to a filmmaker who has made outstanding use of archive material. The award, worth €2,500, is supported by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision.
This film convincingly introduces a new critical paradigm in which every new image questions the entire history of film as a medium and its role within society. It does so through brilliant use of the train as a rich metaphor for human aspiration and technological advancement, connecting the first Lumière film all the way through to the current practice of shooting smartphone footage to document refugees on their quest for a better life.
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