Herz Frank, Latvia, 1978, 35 mm, 10 minutes, Still from 10 Minutes Older, courtesy Riga Film Museum. Herz Frank’s seminal short film has to be seen on the big screen. This short picture (his undeniable masterpiece) was made in cooperation with Juris Podnieks, his student, and established him as a documentary classic.With only one shot and no cuts the director managed to retain the stretch of a boy’s emotional experience, quite short in time but of a great content. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? An astonishing technical feat that also carries a real emotional punch, it brought together Latvia’s most talented documentary filmmakers: Herz Frank (1926–2013) wrote the script and directed the film while the cinematography was done by Juris Podnieks (1950–1992), who later directed such acclaimed documentary features as Is It Easy to Be Young? (1978). 7th St and Constitution Ave NW Ten Minutes Older is an unusual film – it is shot in just one take lasting exactly ten minutes. Yet it is hardly an overstatement to say that this is one of the most influential short films ever made. A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. 6th St and Constitution Ave NW Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. Laura Hoptman and Tomáš Pospiszyl (New York, 2002), 199. Monochrome split screen film. What they see, … On 26 April, the Baltic Film Festival "Baltic Frames" will open at the Danish national center for cinema culture Cinemateket.The festival will be unveiled with a demonstration of the short film "Ten Minutes Older" (1978) by Herz Frank, followed by the feature film "Miracle" by Lithuanian director Egle Vertelyte. Ten minutes last a small lifetime, and tell us everything about why children are so mesmerised by cinema. Frank added the subtitle to circumvent omnipresent Soviet censorship, which rejected any hint of “formalism.” By implying a narrative that the censors could understand, Frank snuck past them a piece of reflexive filmmaking with a modernist agenda that also makes viewers reflect on their experience of the film.[5]. Alina Szapocznikow (1926–1973) was a Polish sculptor whose difficult biography profoundly informed her work. Imants Veide is writing a script about con artists and their schemes. — Līva Pētersone. It resulted in 'Ten Minutes Older' dilogy: 'The Trumpet' and 'The Cello'. Guión: Herz Frank Fotografía: Juris Podnieks Producción: Pauls Pakalns Productora: Rigas Kinostudija (Riga Motion Picture Studios) Tel. The boy on the screen is going through so many emotions that he grows into a new person before our very eyes.25 years later this movie has inspired Wim Wenders to engage his colleagues from different parts of the world in reincarnation of the Latvian directors’ idea and making a film combined of 10-minutes shorts. Doctor Rudolfs spends the summer in the countryside where he meets teacher Laura, the mother of two children and whose husband is in prison. . The series organizers would like to thank Līva Pētersone, curator at the Riga Film Museum, for her tireless assistance with our research for the series. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. (back to top), 4. The idea behind 10 Minutes Older is deceptively simple: over a single 10-minute take, the widest gamut of emotions—from joy to terror—is mirrored in a face of a little child at a puppet theater show. 10 Minutes Older Dir. With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own unique interpretation of ‘time' to the screen. Herz Frank. A 10 minute journey of children's emotions, this film focuses on their faces as they watch an unseen cinema screen. 17 of 18 people found this review helpful. The struggle of two related families for the eighty-year-old aunt's inheritance through comic and romantic events. The National Gallery of Art serves the nation by welcoming all people to explore and experience art, creativity, and our shared humanity. 2 (Moscow, 1993), reprinted in Herz Frank, Uz sliekšņa atskaties [Look back at the threshold], trans. However getting the band to perform in public has to go a long way in getting permissions. 1978 ‘Vecāks par 10 minūtēm ... With every film our souls become ten minutes older, more intelligent and free! Herz Frank / 1978 / Latvia / 10mins. Perteneciente al ciclo “La era atómica. Additional biographical information can be found in Elena Filipovic and Joanna Mytkowska, eds., Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 (New York, 2011). Duration: 85 minutes. Fear, Curiosity; a Smile. 4th St and Constitution Ave NW Ten Minutes Older Documental poético. What they see, we don't; we can only guess from their faces. Left-hand side shows studio-based cellist playing the musical accompaniment to the film. Together with his friend Harijs Kuharjonoks he's trying them out for real for greater authenticity, but gets too entangled in real criminal schemes. With Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen, Marko Haavisto, Ana Sofia Liaño. The intense physicality of Szapocznikow’s work is evoked both literally and metaphorically throughout the film, where the artist is represented in black-and-white still photographs and archival film footage while her voice is articulated through dramatic readings of excerpts from her essays. Elena Filipovic and Joanna Mytkowska, eds., Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 (New York, 2011), 45, n. 24, and 135, n. 11. For Herz Frank’s account of the addition of the subtitle, see the interview with him first published in the magazine Искусство кино / Iskusstvo kino [The art of cinema], no. 235 000 000 was made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. . Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films titled The Trumpet and The Cello. (URSS, 1978) [35mm, B/N, mono, 10 m.]’ Dirección: Herz Frank. Closed, East Building Par desmit minutem vecaks. With thanks to Wojciech Bernacki, Wytwórnia Filmów Oświatowych (WFO), Łódź and Łukasz Mojsak, Filmoteka Muzeum, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, for making a screening of this film possible in Washington. The film’s subtitle is “A Tale about Good and Evil.” This description—ostensibly of the puppet play that the child is watching—also reflects the politics of artistic creation in the Soviet Union. State security intervenes. It was there that she made her most renowned works—vulnerable mannequin-like forms and solitary misshapen figures—based on casts of her own body fashioned out of unconventional materials, such as polyester, that captured both the texture of the flesh and its fragility. In a 1971 poem, she contemplated a piece of chewing gum: “Pulling out of my mouth the strangest forms / I suddenly realized / the existence of an extraordinary collection of abstract sculptures, / passing between my teeth.”[2] In 1968, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The Steamroller and the Violin (1961), directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Ten Minutes Older (1978), directed by Herz Frank Tomka and His Friends (1977), directed. A 10 minute long journey of emotions that befall children faces. After the war, she studied sculpture in Prague and Paris, returning to Poland from France in 1951 after being diagnosed with tuberculosis. 1. One of his most celebrated shorts is 10 Minutes Older (Vecāks par 10 minūtēm, 1978) which presents close-ups of children watching a puppet show. They all sit in a dark theater. Closed. The staccato music of Jan Freda montaged with sounds of radio transmissions and static throughout these discursive scenes reveal Włodarczyk’s interest in experimentation and playfulness with her chosen medium. Thanks also to Agnese Surkova and the Latvian Film Centre for help in making a screening of this film possible in Washington. Ten minutes of their lives go by while they watch a puppet show, of which director Herz Frank shows us nothing at all. Despite this, she emigrated back to France in 1963. The music for the compilations was composed by Paul Englishby, and performed by Hugh Masekela (trumpet) and Claudio Bohorques (cello). Ten Minutes Older is a 2002 film project consisting of two compilation feature films titled The Trumpet and The Cello.The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock [1] as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. One plan, without any glue, director captured on film a little time and a huge segment of the content of spiritual experiences of the child. Kristīne Matīsa (Riga, 2011). [1] As an adolescent during World War II, she was imprisoned with her Jewish family in ghettos and concentration camps. Notably, the creation of the flim was made possible by the cooperation of the Łódź museum’s director, Ryszard Stanislawski, who had been Szapocznikow’s first husband and who released the sculptures and allowed them to be paraded through the streets. The project was conceived by the producer Nicolas McClintock as a reflection on the theme of time at the turn of the Millennium. What a plenty of emotions we see! Was this review helpful to you? 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