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Wednesday, November 25, 2020 - 21:00
Written by:
Dorian Jespers
Cast:
Alexander Pronkin, Tatiana Smirnova, Andrey Sychyov, Katarzyna Wiesiołek, Lisa Fitier, Daria Orlova, Natalia Haikara, , Deni Pitsaev
Cinematography:
Arnaud Alberola, Dorian Jespers
Editing:
Omar Guzman
Sound:
Thomas Becka
Music:
Felix Casaer
Producer:
Hilde D’haeyere (KASK)
Production:
KASK, Scum Pictures, Campana Films, ATAKA51
SUN DOG starts out from the macro image of a Russia, which one can't fully tell if it's apocalyptic or realistic, and the zooms in onto the oftentimes Lynchian micro of a couple of lives crammed into a couple of shabby high-rise apartments. JESPERS constructs a universe seemingly frozen in an eternal nocturnal blizzard, inhabited by gopniks and babushkas who live their lives in slow-motion, where it's never really clear if the moment of disaster is about to happen, or if it's already long gone. (Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
DORIAN JESPERS (1993) is a Belgian filmmaker. He studied cinematography at INSAS and directing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Gent, an education that focuses strongly on the development of a filmmaker’s personal language. This is reflected in his experimental fantasy MA film, SUN DOG. A project for which Jespers graduated with the highest distinction, received the Horlait-Dapsens prize and was offered the Wildcard by the Flemish Audiovisual Funds. The film premiered in the Tiger Short Competition of International Rotterdam Film Festival.
Contact:
Wouter Jansen
Festivals, awards:
Ammodo Award for Best Short Film & EFA Nomination - Ammodo Tiger Shorts Competition, Rotterdam 2020 / Vienna Short Film Award - Vienna Shorts 2020 / Short Waves Festival, Poland 2020 / Kino Pavasaris Vilnius IFF 2020 / Go Short ISFF, the Netherlands 2020 / DokuFest, Kosovo 2020 / Short Waves Festival, Poland 2020 / Moscow International Experimental Film Festival 2020 / Black Canvas, Mexico 2020 / Thessaloniki International Short FF 2020 / Hamburg Short Film Festival 2020 etc.
“Is it a scene from atomic winter or just another evening in deep Russia? Dorian Jespers has a unique way of infusing immediate reality with a profound sense of uncanny, one that is all the more ingenious as seen from an Eastern perspective which can decode the archetypes and topoi which appear in SUN DOG - and into which the filmmaker throws a magisterial wrench with his slowed-down and deliberate cinematography and his masterful use of mise-en-scene.” (Flavia Dima, BIEFF 2020)