The Gravedigger
Kardos Sándor
feature
„Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life.
rendező/director: Kardos Sándor, mű/b: Rainer Maria Rilke: John Mortonson temetése f/sc: Kardos Sándor, o/ph: Kardos Sándor, z/m: Peter Ogi, v/ed: Mógor Ágnes, h/sd: Várhegyi Rudolf, sze/cast: Törőcsik Mari, Papp Alina, Anga-Kakszi István v/ed: Mórotz Kenéz, gy/p.m.: Kovács Ildikó, Karle Gábor, co-p/co-p: Mesterházy Ernő, Mécs Mónika, p/p: Muhi András, támogató/supported by: Magyar Mozgókép Közalapítvány, koprodukciós partner/co-production partner: M&M Film, gyártó/p.c.: Inforg Stúdió, 2010, színes/colour, 85 perc/mins, 35 mm, DolbySR
So the story ignites the imagination only to be slowed down by the images and stops the viewer from taking a flight of fantasy. For example, a film would start off having me believe that I'll see a story about Elizabeth I of England and I would then remember how she was bald, and what clothes she wore, her love for Sir Walter Raleigh, her own feelings and her political conflict... Then the spirit of the film speaks again: stop yourself, don't use your imagination, I'll show you exactly what's what! I have always been searching for an intrinsically different tool in filmmaking. One that could record space in its temporal progression. I would never have thought it existed!" (Sándor Kardos)
