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\n<\/iframe><\/p>\nPhoto-gallery \n<object width=\"400\" height=\"267\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F110815044909204832909%2Falbumid%2F5742398065888474193%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><embed width=\"400\" height=\"267\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&hl=en_US&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=https%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2F110815044909204832909%2Falbumid%2F5742398065888474193%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_US\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n—————— \nsynopsis A)<\/p>\nMariena and Roman are cousins. Despite the fact that each of them has her or his family, children and everyday life they are freaks in a\u00a0settlement in which they live. They share one passion which has little to do with their everyday life \u2013 admiration of singer stars Karel Gott and Dara Rolins. They collect and exchange newspaper clips from tabloids, they rehearse together songs from the repertoire of their idols and borrow their identities under which they are known by their relatives and neighbours. In spite of all expectations Mariena is Karel and Roman is Darinka (i.e. girl is male singer and boy is female singer). One day they decide that they will sing their favourite hit The Bells of Happiness (\u201cZvonky \u0161\u0165astia\u201c) and they will send it to them together with their own video-clip on the DVD. In this project they are accompanied by documentarists Marek \u0160ul\u00edk and Jana Bu\u010dka. Thus there arise a\u00a0mutual play in which roles of protagonists and film-makers are exchanged but also those of media stars and simple people from socially weaker classes.<\/p>\nsynopsis B) \nPregnant Mariena and her cousin Roman live with their families in a\u00a0poor Roma settlement in Eastern Slovakia. They admire two Czecho-Slovak pop stars – Karel Gott and Dara Rolins. They like their life style and their songs. They decide to send them a DVD with the video-message and Roma remix of their hit The Bells of Happiness (\u201cZvonky \u0161\u0165astia\u201c). The film traces the process of shooting this message on the background of their life in the settlement.<\/p>\n——————<\/p>\nCVs OF DIRECTORS:<\/p>\nMarek \u0160ul\u00edk \nHe was born in 1974. He graduated at the Academy of Musical Arts \u201cV\u0160MU\u201c in Bratislava in the subject of documentary film. He is active at this academy present as a pedagogue. He works as a film and television editor and director of documentary films. As an editor he worked e.g. on the films by Peter Kerekes (66 Seasons \u2013 \u201c66 sez\u00f3n\u201c, How the History is Cooked \u2013 \u201cAko sa \nvaria dejiny\u201c), by Mi\u0161o Such\u00fd (Home movie, Pictograph), by R\u00f3bert \u0160vede \n(Demons \u2013 \u201cD\u00e9moni\u201c), by Filip Remunda (Meeting with Film \u2013\u201cSetk\u00e1n\u00ed s\u00a0filmem\u201c), by Jaro Vojtek (Out of the Circle \u2013 \u201cZ kola von\u201c) \nand others. As a\u00a0director he worked e.g. on the documents The Unwanted Children \u2013 \u201cNechcen\u00e9 deti\u201c, Diana or the Way into Showbusiness \u2013 \u201cDiana alebo cesta do \u0161oubiznisu\u201c, The Seven Magical Years \u2013 \u201cSedem magick\u00fdch rokov\u201c, The Way of Magdal\u00e9na Robinsonov\u00e1 \u2013 \u201cCesta Magdal\u00e9ny Robinsonovej, Cigarettes and Songs – “Cigarety a pesni\u010dky” (The prize for the best documentary film, Seefest Los Angeles 2012, the main prize GRAND PRIX, \nArts&Film festival Tel\u010d), Cans of Time \u2013 \u201cKonzervy \u010dasu\u201c, Peter \u017dupn\u00edk \u2013 The Route Paris \u2013 Levo\u010da \u2013 \u201etrasa Par\u00ed\u017e \u2013 Levo\u010da\u201c<\/p>\nJana Bu\u010dka \nShe was born in 1981 in Nitra. She graduated at the Theatre Academy of Musical Arts \u2013 \u201cDAMU\u201c in the subject of acting in Prague and in the Academy of Musical Arts in Bratislave in the subject of documentary creation. She attended studies as visiting student in Spain, Mexico and Romania.\u00a0 Filmography: Cigarettes and Songs –\u00a0 “Cigarety a pesni\u010dky” \n(The prize for the best documentary film, Seefest Los Angles 2012, the main prize GRAND PRIX, Arts&Film festival Tel\u010d), “Couchsurfing” \n“Mamma who born me”, \u201cNational Identity\u201c – “N\u00e1rodn\u00e1 identita”, “Camino” \u2013 created at the Academy of Musical Arts \u201cV\u0160MU\u201c in Bratislava<\/p>\n——————<\/p>\nDOCUMENTARY GAME OF ILLUSIONS AND REALITY<\/strong> \nInterview with the directors Marek \u0160ul\u00edk and Jana Bu\u010dka<\/p>\nEverything started with an ethno-musicological research in which Marek \u0160ul\u00edk cooperated with ethnographer Jana Beli\u0161ov\u00e1. He invited a\u00a0student of documentary direction Jana Bu\u010dka to help him. They were collecting new Roma songs and they were taking care of video-documentation. It resulted in the creation of the DVD Neve gi\u013ea and the film \u201cCigarettes and Songs\u201c \u2013 \u201cCigarety a\u00a0pesni\u010dky\u201c. Music in this film could be labelled basically as \u201crom-pop\u201d. They visited as many as 50 settlements which made a deep impact on them in the form of a\u00a0strong social and emotional experience. They also started to feel a\u00a0need to deal with the so-called “Roma problem”, which means why they are what they are like, why they are poor or how could one deal with their problems, what are solutions of their problems.<\/p>\nThis quest finally resulted in your second film from Roma environment with the title \u201cBells of Happiness\u201c \u2013 \u201cZvonky \u0161\u0165astia\u201c. How did you find your protagonists Mariena and Roman, alias Karel and Darinka?<\/strong><\/p>\nMarek: Some stories we have encountered during this project were really very interesting. And it seemed to us that it would have been a\u00a0great pity not to deal with them in any way anymore. We began to think about a\u00a0film with a\u00a0working title Stories of Fear. The primal question which we asked ourselves and on which this film should have been based was what prevents Roma to come out of the vicious circle of poor life, lack of education, race prejudices etc. And what would they need to break this circle. We managed to receive a\u00a0grant for the development of a\u00a0new project and started to visit settlements and speak with Roma. We looked for people who would have wanted to change their situation. Gradually by using selection we reached four stories depicting various attitudes, from the stage of total resignation and inability to change anything up to someone who absolutely breaks this vicious circle, steps out of it and radically changes one\u2019s life situation.<\/p>\nJana: However, then we invited into this project dramaturgist Honza Gogo\u013ea and we attended three week-long stages of the workshop Ex Oriente Film, an international workshop of authorial documentary film which supports its development and financing in the whole region of Central and East Europe. Both Gogo\u013ea and Ex Oriente persuaded us that it is better to choose one protagonist instead of too dissociated concept. And we also realized that what we made up, that is people who would be able to take fate into their hands, is in fact only our projection which these people could make true only with our help. At last we chose one protagonist \u2013 Mariena. She won our interest by her statement that if she sometimes would get a\u00a0film camera into her hands, she would have shot a\u00a0real film about Roma.<\/p>\nMarek: Another from our starting points was a\u00a0famous Roma film Gypsies Go to Heaven which functions in our cultural awareness for a\u00a0long time. We with our dramaturgist Honza Gogo\u013ea liked the idea to make something like a\u00a0remake of this film, a\u00a0kind of documented theatre in which an old story based on a\u00a0stereotypical perception of Roma would gain new content in contemporary cultural reality. We based our idea on this point and we asked financial support for the development of this project. We eventually gained this grant.<\/p>\nJana: Only with that reservation that after some time we again ran across the problem with two film-making crews out of which one should have been recording the process of creation and the second one life in the neighbourhood settlement. It is again more our own construct than something Mariena would have shot for herself.<\/p>\nMarek: Another aspect was a\u00a0financial sum which we gained for realization of our project and which would not have been sufficient for making such a\u00a0big film.<\/p>\nJana: We received only one quarter of the proposed budget.<\/p>\nMarek: To make such a\u00a0complicated project in the way that it \u201cworks fine\u201c we would need to make a\u00a0lot of rehearsals with Mariena. It would represent a\u00a0lot of work which we could not afford under these financial conditions.<\/p>\nJana: Thus we were fussing around in these problems and tried to find a\u00a0way out. In our situation we were to a\u00a0large degree helped by our participation in the workshop Ex Oriente. Until we got to the stage when it was necessary to take the finished trailer to the workshop. We came to see Mariena to the settlement where we found also her cousin Roman. We started shooting even though we did not know what we would shoot. It looked quite helpless since during two hours of shooting they only lamented over their situation that they did not have money even for shoes.<\/p>\nMarek: It started to look so much like a\u00a0typical “film on Roma”, which made us feel quite unhappy.<\/p>\nJana: Finally we remembered that some time ago Mariena told us about idols she with her cousin Roman admire \u2013 he admired Darinka Rolincov\u00e1 and she\u00a0 Karel Gott. So I\u00a0asked them if they could try to imagine for a\u00a0moment what it would be like if they lived the life of their idols.<\/p>\nMarek: We suggested them to imagine that they were Karel and Darina and that they should have talked to each other like these idols. Immediately they both became animated, jumped into their roles, gained full energy and they began to play. They started to live lives of other people isolated from their everyday Roma problems. As in a\u00a0live TV transmission we could follow a\u00a0contrast of unpleasant reality and a\u00a0dream which they would want to live and into which they are now \u201cincarnated\u201c. So we decided to build the whole film \u201cBells of Happiness\u201c on this contrast. \nOur film went through so many changes that finally it was awarded with the prize Golden Funnel in the workshop Ex Oriente for the biggest progress in the stage of development.<\/p>\nJana: In the beginning we came with something and finally we end up with something completely different. (laughter) We then shot that trailer in half an hour.<\/p>\nHow was later functioning the interactive play with Mariena as a film-maker who was supposed to shoot \u201cthe real film on Roma\u201c during your shooting? Did you develop later also this motif?<\/strong><\/p>\nJana: Yes. For example, we lent them a\u00a0video-camera for a\u00a0month because we wanted them to record in the meantime a\u00a0daily life in the settlement without our presence. However, when we came back we found the camera in a\u00a0pawnshop. When we got hold of the camera, we found out that there had not been recorded anything on it apart from some family party.<\/p>\nMarek: The whole film is built on two plot lines. The first one is a constructed story line in which two Roma from the settlement pretend they are their pop idols, they decide to sing a\u00a0remake of their song and to send them their message in this way. Although, as a\u00a0matter of fact, even this story was based on them. They themselves claimed how they liked Karel and Darinka and how they would have liked to meet with them one day. We as if only pushed them towards this particular step. Thus we returned to the original concept based on the assumption that if you want something you must also do something in order to gain it. We forced them to do something real and to become aware of the energy which is necessary to spend on fulfilling of any dream. On the other hand, in the film there are constantly present real cultural facts\u00a0 and life, real \u201cnon-acted\u201c reactions of protagonists, authentic climax of the whole story, simply something which is not possible somehow \u201cto enforce\u201c for the needs of the\u00a0story.<\/p>\n\u201cBells of Happiness\u201c has an open ending. Mariena and Roman send their idols remake of their hit. Should this story have any continuation in reality? What are your expectations and what are expectations of the protagonists of the film?<\/strong><\/p>\nMarek: Well, they have completely different idea what the world works like. They really think that that Karel with Darina could really sometimes come to see them in the settlement. And actually why couldn\u2019t they? Also I\u00a0basically think that. But…<\/p>\nJana: I\u00a0personally wanted very much that we shot even Karel with \nDarina themselves, to have them sit in the same way as Mariena with Roman sit and that it would have been a\u00a0part of the film. We always hesitated between two basic solutions. The first one would be to leave the film only in a\u00a0plane of a\u00a0dream of our protagonists which is in a\u00a0way stronger. On the other hand, we clearly saw that our audience would have been interested in what followed later. We tried several times to contact both Darina and Karel but only Darina replied and without one of them it would have made no sense.<\/p>\nLet us come back to the theme of “film on Roma”. You mentioned that you got scared when the project started to look like a\u00a0typical “film on Roma”.\u00a0Why did you then decide to shoot with Roma and plan to stick with this theme?<\/strong><\/p>\nJana: I\u00a0am little bit in a\u00a0different position than Marek since I\u00a0was invited to the projects I\u00a0had not made up only when they were already running. Similarly in the case of the previous film Cigarettes and Songs as in the case of the film Bells of Happiness. As each documentarist, I\u00a0have always strived to go to Roma and to make a \u201cRoma film”. I\u00a0would not feel a \u201cwhole person\u201c if I\u00a0had not experienced that. As far as particularly Bells of Happiness is concerned, I\u00a0was attracted to this project that it would be a\u00a0completely different film on Roma than I\u00a0have seen so far.<\/p>\nThat it would be about Roma who would not complain and cry but would start to act. On the one hand I\u00a0have to admit that the more I\u00a0have experienced with Roma the more reservations about them I\u00a0have. But on the other hand their isolation from the world is also good. They are really like children from the aspect how they live for the present moment. And only children are able to play so freely. And exactly this playfulness was a\u00a0great contribution for our film.<\/p>\nMarek: I\u00a0was really held in a\u00a0different situation. I\u00a0was very glad that I\u00a0could go with Jana Beli\u0161ov\u00e1 to the settlements in East Slovakia because I\u00a0had spent several years only by editing films and I\u00a0had been isolated from the world. Although I\u00a0liked my work, I felt I\u00a0missed a\u00a0direct contact with reality. People from settlements and from lower social classes are for every documentarist a\u00a0precious material because they are very open.\u00a0 Du\u0161an Han\u00e1k used to say that people who are very poor or also in some other sense in the bottom, have nothing to lose. They do not have a\u00a0need to cover anything, to play games with you, simply to lie to you. It is different when you move in a\u00a0society who already knows what media mean, that thanks to them they can lose something or somebody can reproach them for something.<\/p>\nJana: To put it in one sentence, those people are more authentic.<\/p>\nMarek: When we speak about those unexpected changes, so I\u00a0can mention at the end how we came to the settlement to shoot the trailer and we found out that Mariena was pregnant. We were afraid that Mariena would not have so much strength in order to direct a\u00a0demanding theatrical project. A\u00a0lack of finances, Mariena\u2019s pregnancy, Ex Oriente, all that forced us to take a\u00a0different way. Originally I\u00a0was happy that I\u00a0would at last make a\u00a0film with a\u00a0normal production and under normal financial conditions and finally we had to manage its production so to speak as if we wanted to make bricks without straw\u201d. And we found out that it was possible. Only on condition that \u201cbricks\u201d cannot be too big.\u00a0At last it appeared that any obstacle can turn into a\u00a0positive thing if you approach it in a\u00a0right way. Similarly as Mariena\u2019s pregnancy, which is, after all, an important element of the story.<\/p>\nIn the ending of the film there occurred also a\u00a0kind of conflict among your\u00a0 protagonists. It seems that also this played into your hands…<\/strong><\/p>\nMarek: Exactly. We have liked the motif of man who based his life on some illusion. That illusion suddenly breaks apart and he remains helpless facing life, which he must lead without that illusion. Also the film Bells of Happiness is conceived exactly in this way. On the play with building of hope and desire, while at the end this play is betrayed. The film as a\u00a0medium confesses its presence and it is unveiled that it is at the same time our filmmakers\u2018 game and their life game. A\u00a0barrier between a\u00a0real life and a\u00a0life of dreams is definitively broken down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Documentary game from the place where wild roses grow but the superstars don’t go. 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