Water and work
Martin Slivka / Czechoslovakia / 1963 / 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 |
contact
SLOVENSKÝ FILMOVÝ ÚSTAV
Grösslingová 32
811 09 / Bratislava / Slovakia
+421 257 101 501 / sfu@sfu.sk
Film at festival
| festival edition: | 2019 |
| section: | Slovak documentary film in the 1960s |
| format: | DCP |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Martin Slivka |
| original title: | Voda a práca |
| country: | Czechoslovakia |
| year: | 1963 |
| running time: | 9 min. |
