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 The Five Obstructions (De fem benspænd)
Denmark 2003, directed by Jørgen Leth and Lars von Trier.
Together with Danish documentary film veteran Jørgen Leth, Trier takes on the task of challenging conventional ways of documentary and film production. Both directors share a fascination of getting into the bone of filmmaking. Down to basic elements, simplicity of image and sound.
In 1967 Jørgen Leth made a 12 min short film called “The Perfect Human”, a document on human behavior containing the familiar Leth themes - a film which Trier admires greatly and claims to have seen more than 20 times. In the year 2000, Lars von Trier challenged Jørgen Leth to make 5 remakes of this film, but each time Trier will put forward obstructions, constraining Leth to re-think the story and the characters of the original film from 1967.
Playing the naive anthropologist, Leth attempts to embrace the cunning challenges set forth by the devious and sneaky Trier. Five times Leth will have to deal with the limitations, commands and prohibitions made by Trier. It is a game full of traps and vicious turns. A fascinating and never seen before film about a filmmaker not only revisiting, but also recreating one of his first films.
“The Five Obstructions” is an investigative journey into the phenomenon of filmmaking.
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 The Souvenirs of Mr. X (Die Souvenirs des Herrn X)
Austria/Germany 2004, directed by Arash T. Riahi.
A filmmaker finds Super 8 footage of an amateur filmmaker at the flea market. He tries to find him and by that sinks deeper and deeper into the wonderful obsessive world of amateur filmmaking.
“The Souvenirs of Mr. X” is a hommage to amateur filmmakers, their dream of film and their wish to find something special in the unspectacular everyday life.
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 Days Under (Untertage)
Netherlands 2003, directed by Jiska Rickels.
A day in the life of German miners as seen in a 20-minute pictorial symphony. Shot in a world devoid of colour, the musical accompaniment was supplied by the horrifying cacophony of jackhammers and creaking mining trucks. Due to difficult shooting conditions the film’s young Dutch director was obliged to use an old Bolex 16 mm camera and a Nagra reel-to-reel recorder. Her choice intensified the film’s impact through the disturbingly grainy image and the rawness of sound.
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Love for cinema is not something that simply happen(ed) to some of us. Falling in love with film is something that everyone should welcome as an opportunity to broaden one’s (intellectual, cultural, intuitive, intimate) horizons. Traveling in this time machine one can go on a magical journey to places and spaces never dreamed possible. A myriad of appearances, languages, aspirations, hopes and desires one can find in a single film scene attests to the fact that considering cinema as cheap and commercial, the underdog really when compared to canonized cultural establishments like opera and theatre, is silly and only a proof of one’s intellectual laziness. (more…)
Festival DokMa is co-produced by Pekarna Magdalenske Mreže (Maribor) and PIFF, Association For The Transformation of Social Communication (Ljubljana). (more…)
The program of the 1st DokMa festival should first and foremost demonstrate our mission: to act on our belief that documentary films and their authors have the power to be the catalysts for positive change and that it is important to value talent, artistic outcome and honest endeavours more than financial gains. We will show documentary films and present the authors who test the limits of the (documentary) filmmaking both in content and form, and take place in the cinematic universe in order to make it better, more beautiful, more honest, more ambitious and/or more democratic and free.
The program of the DokMa festival consists of the Main Programme, InterRegional Retrospective, Great Documentaries, Parrallel Programme and a film theory workshop. All are equally important but each has a different purpose. (more…)
Apart from the Main Programme, in which invited films will be screened from 35mm film prints, we have two categories opened for screenings of Beta SP Pal and digital formats:
1. We accept applications for the InterRegional Retrospective, devoted to European films, produced in non-EU countries in the past five (5) years. The aim of the retrospective is to flashlight extraordinary documentary film production in the countries mentioned above in order to reach into heterogenous realities of people, living outside the economically, politically and culturally formed plurality.
2. Other documentary films are invited into the programme category Parallels, screened at the venue Bukvarna, entirely dedicated to this category. Documentaries of any length or style are welcome to encapture the diversity of documentary film making.
Applications should be submitted together with a preview copy of the film (VHS, DVD or computer formats) to the festival address:
DokMa
Pekarna magdalenske mreze
Ob zeleznici 8
SI-2000 Maribor
Slovenia, Europe
Entry Form 2004 [MS Word format (.doc)]
Entry Form 2004 [OpenOffice format (.sxw)]
Entry Form 2004 [Acrobat Reader format (.pdf)]
Festival address:
DokMa
Pekarna magdalenske mreze
Ob zeleznici 8
SI-2000 Maribor
Slovenia, Europe
Phone: +386 2 300 78 70
Fax: +386 2 300 78 71
E-mail: [email protected]
A well-produced film festival is a world of its own. For the time of the festival the host cities submerge into the freshest and most talked about cinematic masterpieces on the international scale, present their authors and producers, and enable the mingling of the festival public, the authors, the producers and international film institutions.
By enabling the access to the films that are not yet distributed in the area, the film festivals become the meeting point of people working in the audiovisual cultural sector. In both social, business and academic relations they meet to be creative.
The party side, the business side and the academic side of the festival offer quite different cinematic experiences than the regular cinemas. The intensity and hype of a film festival exceed even the everyday intensity of a multiplex cinema.
Establishing of DokMa, the only film festival in the North East region of Slovenia, is a pilot project worth supporting because of the quality of programme and guests, the positive effects to the local economy, the advertising opportunities it offers and the expert team, working for and cooperating with the festival.
One’s love for cinema is not something that “happens”, but (also) something one can learn to love and appreciate. Documentary film festival DokMa, which will take place in the first week of November in the Slovenian city of Maribor, wants and believes it is necessary to constantly broaden intellectual and cultural horizons of everybody who consider themselves part of the (film-loving) community. (more…)
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Daily DokMa Tuesday
A copy of the festival newspaper. This edition is in Slovenian only and is available
here [PDF document, 167kB ].
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