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BORIS PAVAL CONEN (b. 1968, The Netherland) graduated from the Dutch Film and Television Academy with the short film HORROR VACUI. He directed a number of productions including the controversial feature film TEMMINK, THE ULTIMATE FIGHT and the television series THE 9 DAYS OF THE VULTURE awarded with a Golden Calf. His short film DILEMMA and the dance film CAR MEN (he made with renowned choreographer Jirí Kilián) won many international awards including the Prix ‘d Italia (for CAR MEN). His 7-part television series THE SECRETS OF BARSLET was nominated for three Golden Calves. The telefilm EXIT won the Golden Calf for best television drama. This year he will direct two films: a DUIVELS DILEMMA for the HUMAN and again a telefilm for the KRO/NCRV.
- CINEDANS - Dance on Screen Festival Amsterdam 2014
- Netherlands Film Festival 2013
BETWEEN ENTRANCE AND EXIT is a film greatly influenced by the emotional world of my youth, by the apartment in which I was born, filled with heavy, dark 19th century furniture, by the city of Prague and by three personalities which were born in my country and whose work influenced much of the world: Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud and Gustav Mahler. Their work which explored the extremities of human existence with its contradicting emotionality and inexplicable desires, was our guide-line throughout the creation of this film. The symbolic character of the title Between Entrance and Exit is very easy to understand. But it is as easily understood as the time given to us between our birth and our death. (Jiří Kylián)
Curator's comment:
Between encapsulated entrances and walls, there hides a haunting, unfulfilled story of two lovers, that alternates between attraction and rejection, violence and tenderness, offering an emotional show, of which overwhelming mountains of furniture are disapproving witnesses. The music, strengthening the filmic conventions - from oneiric sounds, to lively piano chords and romantic harmonies - is the emotion that moves us along the sensitive bodies for which the act of lovemaking and kisses can cause pain. Unable to detach from each another, in a final encounter, mourning, they accept the ephemerality of their desires by blowing out the flames of passion that heated but also burned them. (Gabriela Lupu, BIEFF)