In times when the world has again lost its reason and the rug has been pulled out from under it, the Stratification of the Moon, with a touch of the lens, points directly into the crack and opens a crevasse leading into the last valuable oasis hosting a variety of cultures and religions.
Genre: documentary
Duration: 50 min
The film Stratification of the Moon starts with a word and displays some figures being written out. The figures measure the time, month, day, memory card number, film take. The pronounced words reveal three stories from past civil wars – two in Lebanon and one in the former Yugoslavia, namely the war for Slovenia. Two stories intertwine the childhood memories of a Lebanese film cameraman Pol Seif with the memory of a Slovenian with Bosnian roots, Sašo Stojič. The third story about heroic feats with different contents is narrated by Farid Chehab, the former producer and co-owner of the Leo Burnett Middle East agency. His narration is accompanied by fragments from films and his TV commercials existing at that time. All three narrations create a space and an opening for events and an international interdisciplinary art exhibition entitled Vertical Collisions. The stories are interrupted and the film, in a documentary-genre fashion, continues exploring disputes and issues related to the conflicts. Those disputes emanating from the exhibition and individual art disciplines as well as those emerging outside the gallery walls, along with the frictions and tensions among the multiple nationalities and religions in the society of Lebanon and, last but not least, also Slovenia. In times when the world has again lost its reason and the rug has been pulled out from under it, the Stratification of the Moon, with a touch of the lens, points directly into the crack and opens a crevasse leading into the last valuable oasis hosting a variety of cultures and religions. At a convenient distance, it not only creates but also gives meaning to a variety of art disciplines and decisions, which makes it the last, priceless part of the Vertical Collisions project/exhibition.
Year of production: 2017
Technical details: 16:9
Country: Slovenia
Language: English, Arabic
Filming locations: Lebanon
Co-financed by: RTV Slovenia
Screenwriter and director: Miha Vipotnik
Producer: Uroš Goričan
Camera: Pol Seif, Hassan Salameh, Jad Tannous, Ghinwa Daher, Elias Daaboul, Gerard Daccache, Miha Vipotnik
Editors: Miha Vipotnik, Mark Abou Farhat, Gerard Daccache
Sound design: Judith Talj
Project phase: distribution
Contact: Uroš Goričan
Tel.: +386 31 655 203
uros.gorican@filrouge.si