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Jana Maneva Chuposka - "Bridge"
Storyboard
from Maja Cankulovska review...
Jana Maneva Chuposka's project "Bridge" Storyboard
consists of several segments presented through different media -
video, photographs and texts, functioning totally independent of the
motion picture "Bridge". The foundation of the project is the video
recording, inspired by the main director’s idea (the title) of the
film, only - unlike the film - it doesn’t narrate some fictive
story/myth, but rather it starts with the documenting of a real
event - the making of a movie, and can be described as a "film about
a film".
The main idea of this project is connection. The most explicit
metaphor of the basic theme - the bridge as connection, also
specified in the "Bridge” Storyboard, is presented through
various situations: sketches of the scenes dissolving into scenes
from the film, preparations for filming linked to nature scenes,
interpretations of the actors/participants in the filming process
and interpretations and reactions about the same issue of people
passing by, with apparent symbolism... - connecting the film and
everyday life, the real and the imaginary.
The initial documentary course of the project is continued in part
in the numerous photographs. The textual segments, through which a
certain "grouping" of photographs is performed, enable a different
kind of narration and interpretation. This type of textual form
enriches and goes beyond the sheer documentary approach of literal
and factual specification, description, explanation and
representation of a certain event with limited duration. The short
universal messages (love, man-woman, game, spaces (and) time,
faces, persons, femina meeting, memories, looks, friendships, home,
family, story about the gun, motion, road, directing, game, I,
alienation...) included in the project, with no intention to
impose on the viewer, offer a lot of possible associations. This
gives the viewer a chance to perceive and interpret the subject in
his/her own way, just like Jana Maneva Chuposka offers her own
personal record - view of the film "Bridge" and it's idea in the
"Bridge" Storyboard.
Maja Chankulovska |
