Béla Tarr’s film follows six days in the life of the poor farmer Ohlsdorfer and his daughter who depend on an increasingly uncooperative horse for their sustenance.
Their austere farmhouse besieged by a relentless storm, they wordlessly pursue their daily routine of chores and scant meals. Captured in stark black and white by
’s exquisitely choreographed camera work, the dogged endurance of their plight achieves a slow burning emotional intensity and austere beauty that affects us at the very core of our existence.
Fred Kelemen Biography
Born in 1964 in West Berlin, Germany, Fred Kelemen studied painting, music, philosophy, religious science as well as drama studies and worked in various theatres as a director’s assistant before taking up his studies in directing and cinematography at the German Film & TV Academy Berlin (dffb) in 1989. Completing the feature Kalyi (Germany, Hungary 1991/1993) during his studies, he graduated in both subjects in 1994. His graduation film Fate (Verhängnis, 1994) won the German National Film Award (Silver Ribbon) for best film in 1995 and the Prix FIPRESCI (International Film Critics Award), also for best film.
Continuing to pursue both his professional skills, Fred Kelemen has directed and shot almost all his own films, garnering many more prestigious awards, and collaborated as cinematographer with other directors.
His own films include Frost (Frost, Germany 1997/1998), Nightfall (Abendland, Germany, Portugal 1998/1999), Fallen (Krišana, Latvia, Germany 2004 /2005) and the trilogy Sarajevo Songs of Woe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany 2016), which premiered at the Warsaw International Festival in October 2016.
His collaborations with other directors are Journey to the Plain (Utazás az Álföldön, Hungary 1995), A London Férfi (The Man from London, Hungary, France, Switzerland, Germany 2005/07) and The Turin Horse (A Torinói Ló, Hungary, USA, France, Switzerland, Germany 2009/11) all three by Béla Tarr. In addition, he was the cameraman on Stone, Time, Touch (Canada, Armenia, 2004/05) by Gariné Torossian, The Visible and the Invisible (Das Sichtbare und das Unsichtbare, Germany 2006) by Rudolf Thome, Sweets (Sukaryot, Israel 2012/13) by Joseph Pitchhadze.
Noski Deville Biography
After directing and winning awards for her own short films, Noski Deville has had a long standing career as cinematographer / director of photography, both on film and digital. She is well known from her work with internationally acclaimed Visual Artists including Jananne Al-Ani (shadow Sites I & II, The Guide and Flock, The Visit); Isaac Julien (Vagabondia); Steve McQueen (Bear, Five Easy Pieces and Stage); Alia Syed (Eating Grass, Spoken Diary and The Watershed), and Daria Martin (Loneliness and the Modern Pentathlon, Soft Materials and Wintergarden). Her work on independent ground-breaking projects include the American feature documentary Trembling Before G-d. Pursuing a special interest in performative camera work she has worked on films that involved the work of choreographers such as Henrietta Hale and Wayne McGregor.
She has been a lecturer at the University of the Creative Arts, Farnham for many years and trained and tutored at numerous other institutions including Goldsmiths College, The Slade, University of London, Four Corners, Sankofa Black Film & Video Workshop, and the London Filmmakers Co-Op. In 2015 Noski won the Jules Wright Award for her extensive and long standing contribution to art as a cinematographer.
