Ten Minutes Older
Documental poético.
(URSS, 1978) [35mm, B/N, mono, 10 m.]’
Dirección: Herz Frank.
Guión: Herz Frank
Fotografía: Juris Podnieks
Producción: Pauls Pakalns
Productora: Rigas Kinostudija (Riga Motion Picture Studios)
Tel.:+371 7242611
Fax:+371 7242612
e-mail: herzfrank@yahoo.com
This documentary film without words observes the faces of children watching a theatre play.
Heaven and Earth by Herz Frank
The first rule of a documentary filmmaker is: Have the patience to observe life!
If you are observant, if you look not only with your eyes, but also with yourheart, the life, for sure, will present you with some particular discovery. Then, the reality recorded by you will gain the artistic value, become in line with art, and will always excite people. The facts and events can become old. They can become history. The feelings we felt regarding those events stay with us. Therefore, art is the only living bridge between people of various generations, between time periods.
Lately, I was invited to conduct a seminar in the film academy in Baden Wurtenberg in Ludvigsburg, Germany. Many documentaries screened during the three-day program were older than the students themselves, which means that they had been produced by us before they were born. Those included the short film "Ten Minutes Older" from 1978,But the reaction was as if the film had been shot only yesterday.
In my 76 years, I was happy as a
child about our documentary filmmaking. This means that our work together with the film's cameraman Juris Podnieks was not wasted. In 1974, when he was still a student, I shared my secret idea of shooting a film in one take with him for the first time. At that time, this idea seemed too unrealistic to him. In four-yeartime both of us matured.
He is not alive any more. The boy recorded in one take - he watches a puppet show, a fairy tale about the Good and the Evil - has become a grown-up man, I have turned gray ...
But the little black-and-white film is still being screened. Last year, it was screened in an international film festival in Seoul, South Korea, A year before, it had been "rolled" for three months in Israel National Museum in Jerusalem. They even equipped aspecial room, and people watched the film for several times, (Here I enclose the invitation card).
A critic wrote that this film, with
persuading simplicity, shows that artistic creativity is a mutual emotional process. Moreover, the viewer is involved not abstractly, theoretically, but in a very active manner.
Another critic added that a person senses the first philosophical conception of life when touching upon other person's drama, when
throwing oneself into other person's life - catharsis! And the film amazes with this emotional and philosophical finding, There is both heaven and earth...
For me, "Ten Minutes Older" still remains a model documentary. There, the screen time and the real time are identical. There are no words, and it was taken all in one breath. The face of a kid, who for the first time gets to know the familiar fight between the Good and the Evil, reflects the depths of the human soul. We did not editanything, we simply started rolling in the right time, and we were patient enough to sit through the drama of the little child... This child helped me to enter into my new film, "Flashback," which basically has grown out of it.
The film lives, and this is the most important thing! One of my friends from documentary filmmakers laughed saying that this is my "Ironclad "Potjomkin"."
I do not object.
Cortometraje de diez minutos dirigido por Herz Frank en 1978. Rodado en un único plano secuencia, y en una única toma, retrata los rostros de un niños que contemplan una obra de marionetas en la que se representa una lucha entre el bien y el mal. Su título hace referencia a uno de los niños, que experimenta, en diez minutos, todas las emociones que repetirá a lo largo de la vida: alegría, emoción, miedo, pena. Con sólo diez minutos de duración, está considerado uno de los momentos cumbre del cine documental.
Veinticuatro años después, siete directores rodaron la película homenaje al cortometraje de Frank, "Ten Minutes Older, The Trumpet" (2002). Las condiciones para participar eran sencillas: cada cortometraje sólo podía durar diez minutos, como en el corto original, tenía que tratar el tema del tiempo y debía aparecer un reloj al menos en una ocasión. A su vez, todos los pequeños filmes están conectados por el nombre del director a la manera de un ideograma japonés seguido de una imagen acuática que hace referencia a una meditación de Marco Aurelio sobre el flujo del tiempo, y un tema compuesto por Paul Englishby en el que domina un solo de trompeta.
Los directores participantes son Chen Kaige, Víctor Erice, Werner Herzog, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, Spike Lee y Wim Wenders.
La película tuvo una segunda parte titulada "Ten minutes older: The cello", con la participación de Bernardo Bertolucci, Claire Denis, Mike Figgis, Jean-Luc Godard, Jiri Menzel, Michael Radford, Volker Schlöndorff e István Szabó.
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_minutes_older
Enlace:Herz Frank nació el 17 de enero de 1926 en Letonia. Estudió Derecho en Moscú y trabajó de periodista y fotógrafo. Desde 1962 fue guionista y director en el Riga Film Studio. Frank es uno de los fundadores de la “Riga School of Poetic Documentaries”, una de las más fructíferas e interesantes escuelas de cine documental de todo el mundo. Ha dirigido unas 30 películas.
Herz Frank estaba entre aquéllos que, en 1960, tras las represalias de Stalin, trató de recuperar la tradición documental marcada por el director soviético Dziga Vertov. Querían sustituir los documentales propagandísticos por obras reales y apasionadas. En los años 60 el Riga Film Studio fue una de las cunas de este nuevo tipo de documentales.
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