Film weekend - Unplugged by Mladen Kovačević

na srpski: UNPLUGGED

(Anplagd)

Director: Mladen Kovačević

Serbia/Finland, 2013, 53min

Category: Documentary Feature

"Unplugged" was selected to competitions at Hot Docs, Visions Du Réel, also screened at CPH:DOX, Dok Leipzig, FIDMarseille, over 80 top festivals where it won 10 awards.

SYNOPSIS:

The traditional leaf-players of Serbia are slowly fading away. Vera, a private detective retired to the village where she grew up as shepherdess, and Pera, the know-it-all peasant of many esoteric skills, are some of the last remaining expert leaf-players in the country. Both in the autumns of their lives, they are still strongly blowing into leaves, producing amazingly unique music. Josip, an inventor of musical instruments, has set out to decode their obscure artistry and the result is 'Unplugged' - an existential allegory about music played on tree leaves, humorously rattling between the most primitive of instruments and the most universal escapism of music. Music has rarely been so offbeat.

Mladen Kovacevic has studied film in Belgrade, LIFS in London, and CTFTVS and AFDA in South Africa. Besides his directorial fictional projects, since two years ago he made two commissioned documentaries, and one thematic documentary