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ALEPH

By Iva RADIVOJEVIC

Second film - Completed 2021

Aleph is a travelogue, a journey through geography, time and space. It explores the lives & musings of 10 protagonists in 10 countries over five continents. The collected stories and experiences serve as pieces of a puzzle -a labryinth, that connects to what Borges called "the unimaginable univer

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New Directors/New Films 2021

Sarajevo FF 2021

Kinoscope

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Second film
- Countries
- USA, CROATIA, QATAR
- Languages
- SPANISH, ARABIC, SERBIAN, GREEK, NEPALI, THAI, ZULU, ENGLISH
- Budget
- N/A
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Iva RADIVOJEVIC
- Writer(s)
- Iva RADIVOJEVIC
- Producer(s)
- Madeleine MOLYNEAUX (PICTURE PALACE PICTURES), Iva RADIVOJEVIC (IVAASKS FILMS), Vilka ALFIER
- Synopsis
- Inspired by a short story of the same name from Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, Aleph uses elements of narrative fiction and the rigor and mechanics of documentary practice to create multiple angles and points of view combined to make a whole. The film zooms into the hyper present to observe and document the ties that bond people across space and time. The experience of meaning, as both revelation and challenge, is what defines the film’s narrative.
  
  Through the journey, the film explores the lives of ten people in ten different countries whose individual stories enable the viewer deeper understanding and insight into these particular stories, and consequently connecting to the larger questions of human community, connection and existence, from the micro to the macro as it were. The protagonists share their thoughts, their innermost feelings about life, their preoccupations and each narrative thread leads us closer to the “center of the unimaginable universe” or the experience of life.
  
  The stories are woven together, each melting into the next, but although they follow a thread, each one has its own particular style. The first one is lead by a stream of consciousness voiceover; another is portrayed as a POV perspective of the protagonist; yet another is a dialogue between two people, a silent scene, etc. Throughout the film, this internal dialogue and external conversation is punctuated by the voice of a gentle, inquisitive, even humorous narrator, a surrogate for the filmmaker’s voice, who serves as a guide to the topography of the film’s larger thematic. At the outset, the narrator introduces “the rules” of the journey or nature of the game to the viewer. In this way the viewer becomes an active participant. The narrator returns every once in a while to make a comment, to make a connection, a la Chris Marker’s Le Joli Mai (1963). The intention and intended effect is for the narrator’s captivating, and hypnotic voice to carry the viewer in and out of dream states.
  
  The film is not based on plot but on events, some of which are the events of thinking, the texture of the mind - depicting consciousness. Through its motifs, the film narrates its own construction.

ALEPH

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