Fire Followers

mocument dir. by Karolina Breguła

The film Fire-Followers is a quasi-documentary about a city plagued by fires for centuries. Although modern solutions have proved capable of preventing catastrophes, the inhabitants of the city continue to live in fear. In a television interview, an eminent art historian claims that the systematically recurring fires that devour works in the museum storage have become an intrinsic part of local artistic practice and condition its proper development – progress is impossible without fire and therefore the burden of legacy should be disposed of in order to enable young artists to create. It seems that the whole city is expecting art to burn. Museums, art galleries and private collections are thought to pose hazard. The inhabitants of the city dispose of sculptures and paintings, leave the districts with museums en masse and demand that public art collecting institutions close down. Although there is no evidence of a threat posed by art, an absurd fear of it affects the daily life of the city. Fire-Followers not only provokes reflection on the situation of universal social fear, but also on art’s impact on the society, the role and burden of legacy, as well as fear of art that advocates change and poses difficult questions.
The film was awarded the Res Artis Award at Sesc_Videobrasil in 2015.

CAST

Ivar Nyygard - Utvik
Trond Sobstad - nauczyciel historii
Jorgen Larsson - leśnik
Eli Kvalvagnes - właściciel pubu
Ewa Ljosvoll - kurator
Johan Fingal - biolog
Trond Nicholas Perry - wynalazca
Hector Pina Barrios - architekt
Gunnar Anerson - mężczyzna w galerii

CO-CREATORS

Script and directing: Karolina Breguła
Cinematography: Robert Mleczko
Sound: Weronika Raźna
Set Design: Patrycja Rabińska
Costume: Patrycja Rabińska, Karolina Breguła
Editing: Stefan Paruch
Producer: Aleksandra Wojtaszek
Production: touchFILMS / Atlas Sztuki

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