Countryside 35×45


director:	Evgueniy Solomin,
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country:	Russia
year:	2009 prio: length: 43
synopsis:	he exact size of 35x45 mm is specified for the passport photographs needed for the new identity document the Russian authorities have made obligatory throughout the land. Lyutikov, a photographer commissioned with taking such photographs, catches a lot more than merely a likeness. His photographic portraits immerse the viewer in those stories that normally elude such images: the rheumatic knees of old ladies, the jacket lent by the photographer to young labourers, the bridal couples looking forward to a radiant future. The photographer records them all with an apparatus now serving the cause of the modernization of Russian civilization. The new document is a passport to modernity; without it, it will not even be possible to buy even a train ticket, or travel at all. Integrating the photographs in the portrait of an extraordinary landscape undergoing historical upheaval, the film shows one village-to-village expedition that represents the beginning of the journey into the brighter future. supposedly enabled by the new passport. But paper, as we know, is easily flammable. And what kind of destination beckons to people take who haven’t been paid for the past eight years?

Truls Lie

Dokumentar.no

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0271 Oslo
Norway

email: truls@dokumentar.no
phone: +47 90855066

In his film company dokumentar.no Lie has since 2008 been working as a film director, cinematographer and producer for documentaries. He works with the new Canon EOS 5D/7D with HD film, and edits in Apple's Final cut.

With Haiti mon Amour (Kjære Haiti, hva nå?) Lie went to Port-au-Prince after the earthqake with Ole Paus and others. We followed the money collected by the norwegian consert Dugnad for Haiti and NRK, and then given to Red Cross, Church Aid and UNICEF. It is edited as a low budget film essay, an montage of images. (se video below)

He has since 2007 worked on a documentary portrait – The Seduced Human – Jørgten Leth and Haiti on the danish renowned filmmaker Jørgen Leth (2011). This one-hour documentary is financed so far by the Norwegian Film Institute with 720 000 kroner – and will be released in 2011. (se video below)

Lie is also editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films, published by the European Documentary Network. See PDFs of the last magaines below.

Lie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher for Morgenbladet between 1993-2003, and has been editor-in-chief/publisher of the Nordic edition of the monthly newspaper Le Monde diplomatique between 2003-08, where he now is still the publisher and regulary film critic.

Se filmen Kjære Haiti, hva nå nå i august/september 2010 på NRK2
Les også reportasjen En uke som dokumentarist i Port-au-Prince ifm besøket på Haiti i mai 2010 i Le Monde diplomatique (LMD)
Les også kommentaren Den monterte virkeligheten om klippeprosessen i juli 2010 i LMD

Les også kritikken Rystende korrupsjon og klassekam av Leths siste bok i mai 2010 i LMD
Les også artikkelen Haiti mon amour, beretningen om et besøk på Haiti mai 2009, der jeg filmet Jørgen Leth i LMD
Les også artikkelen - En film skal ligne et dikt i tilblivelse, et intervju med Jørgen Leth fra september 2008 i LMD

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Open publication - Free publishing - More documentary