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Binger Filmmakers Jennifer Fox and Vardan Hovhannisyan @ IDFA
At the 2006 edition of the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam two filmmakers connected with Binger Filmlab are in the official program with their latest documentaries.Jennifer Fox, documentary coach at Binger, has made the groundbreaking six hour film Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Fox investigates in this film what it means to be a "free" woman, for herself and for other women as well. Were her experiences as a woman solely personal? Or was there a red thread running through female life today beyond culture and class? For four years, Fox "passed the camera" with more than a hundred women all over the globe, both friends and strangers. In their discussions - about sexuality, love, men, children, aging and role models - the camera allows the viewer to enter private conversations. By weaving the story of the filmmaker's own life and sexuality over four years with different stories of women from around the globe, Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman creates a narrative about what it means to be a woman today.
Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman is selected for the IDFA-program: Reflecting Images: Masters and will be shown in three parts during the festival.
Armenian filmmaker Vardan Hovhannisyan is in competition at IDFA (Joris Ivens Competition) with his film A Story of People in War and Peace.
Hovhannisyan shows the footage he shot as an independent war reporter during the battle between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Armenian enclave of Karabakh 12 years ago. He runs across the battlefield with a shaky camera, under a fierce shower of bullets. Scrawny soldiers with sunken eyes spend their days smoking, waiting and taking cover in trenches. Then, Hovhannisyan revisits the soldiers now, bringing prints of stills and frontline footage on his laptop. Although they have put on some weight, many of them are "victims of the peace," as Hovhannisyan calls it in his voice-over. A Story of People in War and Peace is about the psychological effects the war had on the young soldiers.
Hovhannisyan discussed and developed the editing strategy of this film at the Documentary Editing Programme by Stan Neumann at Binger in 2004.
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