
Melodies for a While
Documentary · Music
Overview
The main protagonists of this slow-paced film are abandoned or suspended spaces associated with the production, distribution, and viewing of cinema in various localities across North Ossetia. The discussion of the decline of the film industry also serves as a way of pointing to the ambiguous position in which the progressive modernist project found itself in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Ignatov proposes poetic ways of establishing new relations with this project in response to the need to reinvent the links between past and future. The abandoned spaces are brought to life by two visiting musicians playing the uadynz, traditional Ossetian flutes.
Top Cast
Tamu Berozti
Tamu Berozti
Himself
Tamu Berozti
Himself
Sarmat Kargaev
Sarmat Kargaev
Himself
Sarmat Kargaev
Himself
Soslan Pagiev
Soslan Pagiev
Himself
Soslan Pagiev
Himself
Alan Khugaev
Alan Khugaev
Keeper
Alan Khugaev
Keeper
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