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Out of Competetion - La Biennale di Venezia - Film Festival
Aquarela – Victor Kossakovsky
The Documentary
Aquarela takes audiences on a deeply
cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water.
Filmed at 96 frames-per second, the film is a visceral wake-up call that humans
are no match for the sheer force and capricious will of Earth’s most precious element. From the precarious frozen waters of
Russia’s Lake Baikal to Miami in
the throes of Hurricane Irma to Venezuela’s mighty Angel Falls, water is Aquarela’s main character, with
director Victor Kossakovsky
capturing her many personalities in startling visual detail.
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courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Aquarela – Victor Kossakovsky
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“When I was
four, I spent a summer in a village between Moscow and St. Petersburg at a
river source. A man who lived there, Mikhail Belov, said to me, “If you made a
little boat from wood chip and leaves, then put it in this river, it would
float on the water to the North Sea and then around the world.” Years later I
returned to that village to shoot my film, Belovy.
I put my camera into a little boat and I made the journey from that village to
the sea. In 2000, I stayed in a house on the Baltic Sea. The sea was different
every day, hour and minute. Different colors, movements, energies… through the
lens of water you would be able to experience all known human emotion. With Aquarela,
I wanted to film every possible emotion experienced while interacting with
water: beautiful and unsettling emotions – ecstasy and inspiration as well as
destruction and human devastation.”
Victor
Kossakovsky
Director’s statement
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courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Aquarela – Victor Kossakovsky
Contessanally – beautiful, dramatic, tragic
documentary - melting glaciers, hurricanes – beautiful shot – 8/10
