Kazakhstan: Where Filmmakers have Humor

by Pier Marton | Dec 2, 2010 | Asia, Film, Humor, Review

My short review:
TULPAN: Strong winds, birth and death will keep us honest. Add to it the stark steppes of Kazakhstan and a camera that loves its actors (and its animals), and you have a rich and intimate portrayal of Kazakh country life that will revive most wearied Western viewers—>A
An interview with Sergey Dvortsevoy.
With a website for Tulpan.

This may inspire some viewers to seek out another great Kazakh filmmaker, Darezhan Omirbaev, sometimes described as combining Tati with Bresson! Unfortunately his films are not easy to find in the U.S.

News & Olds

BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus