Wild Blue: Notes à quelques voix
Belgium,
2000, 68 min
Shown in 2001
CREDITS
- dir
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Thierry Knauff
- prod
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Thierry Knauff
- scr
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Thierry Knauff
- cam
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Antoine-Marie Meert
- editor
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Thierry Knauff, Michèle Hubinon, Luc Plantier
- source
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Les Productions du Sablier, 15 Avenue de la Grande Boucle, 1420 Braine L’Alleud, Belgium. FAX: 32-2-354-2859. EMAIL: sablier@skynet.be
- premiere
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U.S. Premiere
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COMMENTS
Screened with Our Spirited Earth.
OTHER
For seven years, Thierry Knauff collected film images from all over the world—images of striking beauty combined with testimonies of human cruelty. The resulting cinematic essay enraptures us with evocative fragments of a conflicted humanity, laying bare all its brutality and compassion. Narrated by women from around the world, the film brings us into direct contact with the events and atrocities they describe. In one section, over the hypnotic images of the Master Drummers of Burundi, a woman calmly chats about body counts, bloody conflicts and mass graves. Yet, amid the talk of violence, little of it is depicted in Wild Blue’s imagery, though perhaps the most devastating section of the film consists of a series of giant trees being felled. This awesome and terrible spectacle encapsulates the effect of the film overall, and attests to cinema’s unique ability to simultaneously express beauty and terror. It is but one of the film’s varied and spellbinding terrains.
FACTOID #7
Governor Pat Brown welcomed the crowd at Opening Night of the Festival October 30, 1963. Other attendees included George Peppard, Willie Mays and the governor’s wife Bernice; it also happened to be the couple’s 33rd wedding anniversary.
