Film tjedna #010 – Festivalski turizam (r. Sunčica Ana Veldić, 2015.)
“When life calls, be ready.” Kao grom iz vedra neba, slogan s turističke reklame nakeljene na bok autobusa presijeca film po pola, upravo u času kad svima, pa i autorici, postaje jasno kako Festivalskom turizmu nedostaje “prava” priča. Do tog se trenutka čovjek trudi iz kaotičnog, ali pomno sekvenciranog niza impresija prozreti nešto više od vječne mijene. No, upravo nju treba uhvatiti. Neiskorišteni isječak isprva snimljen za potrebe Hux Fluxa, filma koji je Sunčici omogućio festivalski turizam, sada se pretvara u epilog ovog filma – zbunjen pas tumara i raširenih očiju traži prosvjetljenje, sljedeći kadar kojim će se probiti s onu stranu klišejizirane stvarnosti i osjetiti žilu kucavicu, montažu života. Ali jebiga, za to prvo treba buljit u reklamu.
U monografiji 'Čisti amaterizam', Damir Radić je utvrdio kako je u Festivalskom turizmu „vidljiva stanovita autorska dezorijentiranost”, to jest da je riječ o pokušaju da se „iz ničega
napravi nešto”. Nema sumnje da je dezorijentiranost sveprisutna, no prije bi se reklo da ovaj film 'ništa' plete iz nečega. E, to je uzbudljivo.
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“When life calls, be ready.” Like a sudden flash of light, the wise words of a tourist ad stuck onto the side of a bus slice the film in half, just when everyone, including the filmmaker, wakes up to the fact that Festival Tourism lacks a “real” story. Until that moment, you’re stuck trying to parse something more than constant change from the chaotic, but carefully sequenced series of impressions. But it is, in fact, change that is being captured. An unused sequence initially shot for Hux Flux, the film which made Sunčica a festival tourist, now serves as this film’s epilogue – a confused dog wanders around, wide-eyed, looking for enlightenment, the next shot with which she will pierce the veil of cliched reality and feel the pulse, the montage of life. But, to do that, first you’ve got to stare at this fucking ad.
In the monograph ‘Pure Amateruism: 91 years of Kinoklub Zagreb’, Damir Radić wrote that “a certain amount of authorial disorientation” is visible in Festival Tourism, that it is an attempt at creating “something out of nothing”. There is no doubt that disorientation is ever-present, but you could say that this film is, in fact, threading ‘nothing’ out of something. Now, that’s exciting!