28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Water and work
director: Martin Slivka
original title: Voda a práca
country: Czechoslovakia
year: 1963
running time: 9 min.
synopsis
The directorial debut by a pioneer of ethnographic film is a survey of technical monuments utilizing water drives as their source of power. A look back into the world of yesterday using a suggestive montage of images and music composed by Ilja Zeljenka based on the electronically preserved sounds of water engines.biography
Martin Slivka (1929-2002) studied documentary filmmaking with Professor Karl Plicka at FAMU (1955), then ethnography and folklore at Charles University in Prague (1963). His best known films include Icons (1966) and A Man Departs (1968) and the television series Children of the Wind (1990). He studied folklore and folk theater as a theorist.more about film
| director: | Martin Slivka |
