Buffalo Death Mask / Buvolí posmrtná maska (): VIDEOS
Buffalo Death Mask (2013)
Duben 05, 2019
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Awards: International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI), Oberhausen, 2013; Critics Award, 25FPS, Croatia, 2013; Vimeo Audience Award, Ann Arbor Festival, 2013; “Important Cinematic Works,” Alternative F/V Fest, Belgrade, 2013
A conversation with Canadian artist Stephen Andrews returns us to a pre-cocktail moment, when being HIV+ afforded us the consolation of certainty.
International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI), Oberhausen, 2013
“Important Cinematic Works,” Alternative F/V Fest, Belgrade
Critics Award, 25 FPS Festival, Croatia
“Honorable Mention,” Stuttgart Filmwinter
Vimeo Audience Award, Ann Arbor Festival, 2013
“For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic — on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question "Why are we still here when so many are gone?" Tom Waugh
“Mask is insightful, wise, poignant, honest, evocative, and shaded beautifully and sadly with longing.” Tom McSorley
“Without apparent effort it shifts from vulnerability to strength, from melancholy to humor and from personal as well as universal suffering to a comforting and soothing celebration of memory. Mike Hoolboom's film ultimately created a notion that probably does not exist in words. What is the opposite of a scar?” (Jury Statement, “Important Cinematic Works of the Festival,” Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade)
“From a very strong program there were several impressive works; however there can only be one winner. The winning film highlights universal themes in a poignant, personal way. Through earnest dialogue and dreamlike imagery it laments sickness and death and how losing the ones you love is also losing part of yourself. A striking, warm film.” (International Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize, Oberhausen)
“The FIPRESCI jury’s International Film Critics’ Award went to Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolbloom for Buffalo Death Mask (2013), a striking and contemporary upgrade on the traditional underground film diary. Featuring a remarkably earnest conversation between two HIV positive friends discussing new medication as well as memories of friends and lovers lost to the virus, Buffalo Death Mask was both personal and universal in its approach. Blended together with home movie footage and obscured faces, the film achieved a resonant harmony between its dialogue and image.” Out of the Melting Pot by Tara Judah, Australian Film Critics Association
“The jury decided unanimously to award the prize of the Sicilia Queer Film Festival 2014 to Buffalo Death Mask by Mike Hoolboom. We would like to emphasize the daring complexity and formal creativity that the filmmaker gives to this most intimate, sensitive and painful of subjects. Universal in scope, the work reinvents the possibilities that narrative has to offer the cinema. Rare and delicate, it sparkles like the fireflies whose disappearance Pasolini lamented. More than a movie, Buffalo Death Mask reveals an artistic life. Tonight the fireflies have not disappeared.” Jury Statement, First Prize, Sicilia Queer International Festival, 2014
"Buffalo Death Mask proves the valuable potential of a cinematic expression that resists clichés and directly transposes the most painful human experience, the loss of a loved one.” Jury statement for Critics Prize, 25FPS Festival, Croatia
“Moving rumination on the world and memory from a veteran experimentalist.” (BFI Flare)
“Through a penetrating fog, a mask-like face appears on the screen. Nearly a decade after these pictures were developed, director Mike Hoolboom uncovers 16mm footage of a now-deceased friend with AIDS staring back from the archive. Accompanied by dream-like images of the city of Toronto, the filmmaker speaks with artist Stephen Andrews about living with HIV, the memories of deceased friends, and life after death.” Kasseler Dokfest
“A conversation with the Canadian artist Stephen Andrews turns into a dreamlike imaginative tale made up of small fragments of ethereal memories. This introspective, personal journey leads us into the director’s psyche were he tell us about his life with HIV using a technique which is equally experimental and effective.” Sicilia Queer International Festival, 2014
A conversation with Canadian artist Stephen Andrews returns us to a pre-cocktail moment, when being HIV+ afforded us the consolation of certainty.
International Film Critics Prize (FIPRESCI), Oberhausen, 2013
“Important Cinematic Works,” Alternative F/V Fest, Belgrade
Critics Award, 25 FPS Festival, Croatia
“Honorable Mention,” Stuttgart Filmwinter
Vimeo Audience Award, Ann Arbor Festival, 2013
“For more than two decades Mike Hoolboom has been one of our foremost artistic witnesses of the plague of the twentieth century, HIV. A personal voice documenting and piercing the clichéd spectrum of Living With AIDS from carnal abjection to incandescent spirituality, no surviving moving image visionary surpasses him. Buffalo Death Mask is a three-part meditation — visual, oral and haptic, both campy and ecstatic — on survival, mourning, memory, love and community. A conversation between Hoolboom and visual artist Stephen Andrews, both long time survivors of the retrovirus, floats over what seems to be a dream of Toronto and some of its ghosts. No one savours the intimations of immortality inherent in recycled footage like Mike, no one else understands how processed Super 8 can answer the question "Why are we still here when so many are gone?" Tom Waugh
“Mask is insightful, wise, poignant, honest, evocative, and shaded beautifully and sadly with longing.” Tom McSorley
“Without apparent effort it shifts from vulnerability to strength, from melancholy to humor and from personal as well as universal suffering to a comforting and soothing celebration of memory. Mike Hoolboom's film ultimately created a notion that probably does not exist in words. What is the opposite of a scar?” (Jury Statement, “Important Cinematic Works of the Festival,” Alternative Film/Video Festival, Belgrade)
“From a very strong program there were several impressive works; however there can only be one winner. The winning film highlights universal themes in a poignant, personal way. Through earnest dialogue and dreamlike imagery it laments sickness and death and how losing the ones you love is also losing part of yourself. A striking, warm film.” (International Critics (FIPRESCI) Prize, Oberhausen)
“The FIPRESCI jury’s International Film Critics’ Award went to Canadian filmmaker Mike Hoolbloom for Buffalo Death Mask (2013), a striking and contemporary upgrade on the traditional underground film diary. Featuring a remarkably earnest conversation between two HIV positive friends discussing new medication as well as memories of friends and lovers lost to the virus, Buffalo Death Mask was both personal and universal in its approach. Blended together with home movie footage and obscured faces, the film achieved a resonant harmony between its dialogue and image.” Out of the Melting Pot by Tara Judah, Australian Film Critics Association
“The jury decided unanimously to award the prize of the Sicilia Queer Film Festival 2014 to Buffalo Death Mask by Mike Hoolboom. We would like to emphasize the daring complexity and formal creativity that the filmmaker gives to this most intimate, sensitive and painful of subjects. Universal in scope, the work reinvents the possibilities that narrative has to offer the cinema. Rare and delicate, it sparkles like the fireflies whose disappearance Pasolini lamented. More than a movie, Buffalo Death Mask reveals an artistic life. Tonight the fireflies have not disappeared.” Jury Statement, First Prize, Sicilia Queer International Festival, 2014
"Buffalo Death Mask proves the valuable potential of a cinematic expression that resists clichés and directly transposes the most painful human experience, the loss of a loved one.” Jury statement for Critics Prize, 25FPS Festival, Croatia
“Moving rumination on the world and memory from a veteran experimentalist.” (BFI Flare)
“Through a penetrating fog, a mask-like face appears on the screen. Nearly a decade after these pictures were developed, director Mike Hoolboom uncovers 16mm footage of a now-deceased friend with AIDS staring back from the archive. Accompanied by dream-like images of the city of Toronto, the filmmaker speaks with artist Stephen Andrews about living with HIV, the memories of deceased friends, and life after death.” Kasseler Dokfest
“A conversation with the Canadian artist Stephen Andrews turns into a dreamlike imaginative tale made up of small fragments of ethereal memories. This introspective, personal journey leads us into the director’s psyche were he tell us about his life with HIV using a technique which is equally experimental and effective.” Sicilia Queer International Festival, 2014
