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Producer: Andreas Horvath
Source:
Sixpack Film
407 Storms Road
Valley Cottage, NY 10989, USA
amovie@earthlink.net
A film of profound emotional force, made with the most minimal and imaginative
means, and about a very unusual subject. As hoof-and-mouth disease ravished
northern Yorkshire in 2001, Andreas Horvath arrived from Austria with
a Super8 camera and a non-sync audio recorder. He shot images of the
landscape, its animals, and, from a distance, some of its people - especially
the government officials who were taking over the area and eviscerating
livestock populations. Horvath also recorded conversations, church services,
and other events. Gradually, a sinister explanation for the destruction
of the animals emerges. Horvath later combined the images and sounds,
and married them with stirring music by Samuel Barber. The resulting
work is a devastating study of a landscape, its animals, and its people.
Andreas Horvath was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1968. He studied photography
in Vienna and Multimedia art in Salzburg. He has since published several
photography books and made several independent films including WIENZEILE
(1995), CLEARANCE (1998), AIDS-HILFE SALZBURG (1999), POROEROTUS (2002)
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