AMOOSED: a moose odyssey

synopsis

When director and ethnologist Hana Nováková encountered an elk, it changed her life. And she wasn't the first. For centuries, people across continents and cultures have been fascinated by this ancient totem animal, one of the largest mammals in the northern hemisphere. Whereas in the past they wanted to conquer it, today they tend to listen to it. The director's cinematic odyssey is the result of several years of searching for the secrets of the moose. It leads from Czech forests through a Russian domestication station to the territory of the indigenous peoples of Canada. A collage of stories told from personal, spiritual, and scientific perspectives shows the moose as a guide between worlds, a symbol of balance and renewal, and a possible answer to the question of how we can heal our relationship with nature.

“Filming animals across the planet is an extraordinarily epic undertaking—all the more so when it involves a ‘process film,’ i.e., the unfolding observation of events whose outcome we often cannot predict, even though we know for certain that they were triggered by the filming itself.” — Hana Nováková

Source: Dok.revue

biography

Hana Nováková (b. 1978) studied Bengali at Charles University, documentary filmmaking at FAMU, and interdisciplinary doctoral studies in ethnozoology. She lived and studied abroad for several years. She has worked for Czech Television and the Czech Academy of Sciences. Her work focuses primarily on the relationship between humans and nature.

film details

director:	Hana Nováková
producer:	Kateřina Traburová
photography:	Františka Chlumská
editing:	Soňa Jelínková
sound:	Marek Búranovský
co-producer:	Peter Kerekes

contact

Kateřina Traburová / LaDamplinque s.r.o.
ktraburova@gmail.com