Felvidek. Caught in between (English version)

director: Vladislava Plančíková

original title: Felvidék - Horná Zem

country: Czech Republic, Slovakia

year: 2014

running time: 75 min.

synopsis

In her documentary on Hungarian-Slovak relations, Vladislava Plančíková focuses on the word “felvidék”, which refers to the now non-existent northern part of Austro-Hungary. In a personal collage consisting of the stories of members of her Slovak-Hungarian family and of visual references to historical events, she follows the eventful and today often taboo history of the post-war fate of Hungarians on Slovak soil. The abstract topic grabs our interest not only through the witnesses’ testimony, but also by using thre novel technique of animating real objects, including a number of contemporary and modern photographs.

DETAIL:
“The word ‘Felvidék’ lives on today and evokes negative emotions, sometimes even fights. But for me it’s a magical place, a kind of Macondo, the place where I was born and raised. My home.”

biography

Prior to filming her full-length debut Felvidék, this documentary film student at FTF APAB in Bratislava created a number of short films, the most compelling of which is a personal portrait of deaf Slovak graphic designer Stanislav Lubina entitled If I Found a Cricket in the bios (2009). She filmed one episode of the documentary series Other Women (Playful, 2012) for Slovak Television, in which she focused on five renowned Slovak female artists.

more about film

director:	Vladislava Plančíková
producer:	Tomáš Kaminský, Jarmila Poláková
script:	Vladislava Plančíková
photography:	Dušan Husar
editing:	Terézia Mikulášová, Zuzana Cseplő
music:	Jana Kirschner
sound:	Igor Baar

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