BUKA (2007)
Running time: 13:30
Format: HDV
choreographed/performed by Marta Ladjanszki
directed, edited by Boldi Csernak
photographed by Balazs Lajti
music: Zsolt Hammer, Adam Javorka, ZSolt Varga
Buka is an experimental, meditative, psychological short film about a young woman
who
lives in her own world physically and psychically isolated. I wanted to make a film
which use visuality
and movements rather then dialogue or text. We started the work
with conversations about emotions,
like loneliness, being separated, lost, scared and
the feeling of lost. A subjective perception of the world
what makes impossible to change
ones life. A long term daydreaming, where fantasy and reality
becomes equally real and
unreal. The character Buka was born through these conversations.
The location is a loft
of a hundred years old building, which expresses the kind of
„psychological space“ we
wanted. Marta worked out the character through movements, costumes,
some symbolic
narrative and choreography. It resulted in a staged, but unscripted/unrehearsed
film
developed scene by scene on set.
The soundtrack is written by three Hungarian
musician with a history of working relationship with Marta Ladjanszki.
The music is
based on recordings of live improvisations inspired by the film. Their aim was to open a
„door“ into
Buka’s (Marta’s) head and make it possible to hear all those strange noises.
Their percussion dominated experimental
music based on the sounds of varied objects
from their „library“vary from traditional instruments to little metal gadgets,
toy instruments
and plastic sticks.