DISTANCES

a film by Liliana Resnick

9:55 min/sec
b&w
experimental narrative
shooting format: 35mm stills and digital video
exhibition formats: 35mm, digital video / DVD, Beta SP

Log line:

The tree is one yet has many branches: so too we are one, but spread into many.

Synopsis:

A woman is forced to take an unwanted step in her life. The film is mostly composed of still images emphasizing her wish to slow down time until she is ready.

Director’s Statement:

DISTANCES explores the experiences of three women who worked on the film, Jasna Culic-Viskota, the actor in the film, Emer Martin, who wrote and read the voice over, and my own. Traveling around the world in order to experience different cultures has many advantages, and the rewards for doing so are precious. However, there is a point in one’s lifetime when one wants to stop and become a long-term part of a community. This may not be possible if your own needs, wishes and dreams have to be surrendered to following ‘job opportunities’ far away.

This film is dedicated to all the migrants of the world.

Liliana Resnick

Credits:

cast:
Jasna Culic-Viskota

voice over writer and actor:
Emer Martin

music composed and performed by:
Dalibor Bukvic

voice over sound recording:
Niall McKay

sound and music recording:
Liliana Resnick

35mm negatives and slides scanning:
Al Gaynor/ Alpha CD Imaging

producer, director, writer, editor, photographer, sound designer: Liliana Resnick

Voice over

EMER MARTIN is a Dubliner who has lived in Paris, London, the Middle East, and various places in the U.S. Her first novel Breakfast in Babylon won Book of the Year 1996 in her native Ireland at the prestigious Listowel Writers’ Week. Houghton Mifflin released Breakfast in Babylon in the U.S. in 1997. More Bread Or I’ll Appear, her second novel was published internationally in 1999. Emer studied painting in New York and has had a sell-out solo show of her paintings at the Origin Gallery in Harcourt St, Dublin. Her new book is Baby Zero, published March 07. She has just completed her third short film Unaccompanied. She produced Irvine Welsh’s directorial debut NUTS in 2007. Emer was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. She now lives in the jungles of Co. Meath, Ireland. Her website is emermartin.com

JASNA CULIC-VISKOTA earned both of her undergraduate and graduate degrees in New York City. Jasna’s BA degree is in liberal arts from Marymount Manhattan College, and her master’s degree is in international affairs (economics) from New School University. Jasna currently works for an investment bank, Depfa Bank in Dublin, Ireland.

Jasna lived in Split, Croatia until she was 17 years old.

DALIBOR BUKVIC received BA in composition from the University of Zagreb Music Academy in the class of Stanko Horvat and continued his studies under K.H. Stockhausen, L. Lombardi (Darmstadt), and at the IRACAM Summer Academy, under L. Cuniot, M. Zbar and G. Grisey (Conservatoire de Paris). From 2002 to 2005 he lived and worked in Paris, teaching at the conservatoires d’Ivry sur Seine, Frederic Chopin and Nadia et Lili Boulanger. His compositions have been performed in Croatia and abroad including The Zagreb Music Biennale Festival, the Days of Croatian Music, and the International Music Festival in Opatija. His music has also been recorded for the Croatian Radio and Television. For his compositions he has been awarded the Rector’s Award of Zagreb University in 1992 and the prize Stjepan Šulek in 1995. He returned to Zagreb in 2008 where he now teaches at the University of Zagreb Music Academy.