Između biti i ne biti
Međuprostor, ničija zemlja, polupostojanje, hibridna forma – sve ove figure obeležavaju XVIII Festival autorskog filma. U filmu Cezar mora umreti braće Tavijani, snimljeni su kažnjenici jednog rimskog zatvora koji spremaju predstavu, Šekspirovog Julija Cezara – prepoznajući u davno napisanoj fikciji drame vlastitog postojanja. A magija filmova Ulriha Zajdla (Raj: Ljubav i Raj: Vera) proističe upravo iz toga što se dokumenat više ne može razlučiti od fikcije, ni gluma od života. U dokumentarcu Bob Villson režira „Život i smrt Marine Abramović“ vidimo kako slavna umetnica igra svoju majku, razrešavajući time sopstvene konflikte iz detinjstva i adolescencije. U filmu Iza brda, kanski laureat Kristijan Munđiju pričom o egzorcizmu rumunsku stvarnost pretače u fikciju, a njegova fikcija opet postaje stvarnost – u zemlji Srbiji, ovoga leta...
Pozicija međuprostora, polupostojanja podložnog jedino zakonima paradoksalne logike, odlikuje Autorski festival od njegovog nastanka 1994. godine. Između „kultnog događaja za ljubitelje filma u Beogradu“, i „fantomskog festivala“, kako ga je jedan kritičar nazvao; između „manifestacije od nacionalnog značaja“ i manifestacije čije je održavanje svake godine pod znakom pitanja – Autorski festival izgradio je svoj prepoznatljivi imidž i svoju publiku. „Pravi svaki svoj film kao da ti je poslednji“, jedna je od čuvenih Bergmanovih zapovesti upućenih autoru – i nje se naš festival, silom prilika, dosledno pridržavao kroz svoju istoriju.
Uostalom, festival koji nema dovoljno sredstava za štampanje kataloga, i sam pristaje na polupostojanje: kroz deset godina morate uz potpise živih svedoka da dokazujete kako ste nekad imali sjajan program. To vam je slično onim junacima grčkih mitova koji letuju na zemlji, a zimuju u Hadu; sad ga vidiš, sad ga ne vidiš!
Ubeđen sam da će, pod skromnim uslovom da opstane, Autorski festival u narednim godinama imati sve širi krug publike. U vučjim vremenima, vremenima krize i beznađa, čovek preživljava najviše zahvaljujući volji za smislom. A taj smisao, mada naizgled skriven, sačuvan je u delima umetničkog, autorskog filma, u pravoj umetnosti uopšte.
Srđan Vučinić
Between to be and not to be
A gap, no men’s land, half existence, hybrid form – all these figures mark the 18th Auteur Film Festival. In brother Traviani’s Caesar must die, they filmed convicts of a roman prison who are preparing a play, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and recognizing the drama of their own existence in the fiction written long time ago. And the magic of Ulrich Seidl film (Paradise: Love and Paradise: Faith) come from the fact that you cannot see the document from fiction, nor acting from life. In the documentary Bob Wilson’s Life and death of Marina Abramovic, we can see the famous artist play her own mother, and though that resolving her own childhood and adolescent conflicts. With a story about exorcism, in Beyond the hills, Cannes laureate Cristian Mungiu turns Romanian reality into fiction and then his fiction becomes reality again – in Serbia, this summer…
The position of the in between, the half existence subject only to the laws of paradoxical logic, characterize the Auteur Film festival since its establishment, in 1994. Between the “cult event for film lovers in Belgrade” and “phantom festival”, as one critic called it; between “manifestation of national importance” and manifestation whose existence is under the question mark every year – the Auteur Film Festival has built its recognizable image and audience. “Make your every movie like it’s your last” – is one of the memorable Berman’s commands for authors – and the Festival adheres to that, consistently, throughout its history.
After all, a festival that hasn’t got enough means to print a catalogue, accepts to half exist: over ten years you have needed a signature of living witnesses to prove that you had a brilliant program once. It is similar to heroes of those Greek myths who spend summers on Earth, and winters in Hades; now you see him, now you don’t.
I am convinced that, under modest condition to survive, the Auteur Film Festival will have an ever-expanding audience in years to come. In the wolf times, the time of crisis and hopelessness, a man survives mainly due to the will of meaning. And that meaning, though seemingly hidden, is preserved in the works of art, auteur film and true art in general.
Srđan Vučinić
