White White World

Director's Statement

This is a movie about longing for escape from the destiny of anguish and hopelessness. This is a movie about people who live on the edge of existence, from day to day, with no future and with dreams that surpass them, because life itself surpasses them. This is a movie about destruction and collapse. This is a movie about longing for living and longing for death. And most of all, this is a movie about indestructible life, because lives can, but life cannot be destroyed. The movie takes place in the mining town of Bor, once a symbol of Yugo-prosperity, now a mouldering symbol of its deterioration. Realistic setting with very little scenographic interventions. Hand-held camera to produce the necessary dynamics, tele-lenses the poetic effect and Cinemascope the scale. The acting is hyper-realistic. The lines in the songs are pronounced like realistic dialogue. Acting is naturalistic. Acting without acting. Songs in the movie are sung as a part of the action without a pause in storytelling. The music is an original score - Balkan tango, passionate and heart-breaking. Totals (wide frames) are essential for this movie. Wide frames of the town of Bor, the deep mining shafts, the vast polluted lake, huge vacant factories, disused chimneys and endless blocks of socialist apartments. The film is about a search for freedom and escape, doomed by fate and the dark side of the human soul. It happens in a decaying world where the most powerful man is powerless to change his own destiny. It’s a dance with the devil, a Balkan Tango in a Balkan hell, where to love is only to die.