Platform for experimental and anthropological film,
sound, and landscape cinema.
sound, and landscape cinema.
Film
Grass Blades
Ivana Mladenović
2016, romania, 16mm transferred to digital, 9 min, romanian with English subtitles
On the outskirts of Bucharest, teenage twin brothers train for a local boxing championship. The film observes them as they prepare, wait, and spend time together before entering the ring. Boxing’s inherent brutality is counteracted by the presence of Walt Whitman’s poem Leaves of Grass.