Meeting up with director Jessica Oreck at this year’s Hot Docs Film Festival in the lobby of a hotel in the museum district of Toronto just an hour before she hopped on yet another plane as part of her current festival tour took a bit of persistence, not because the brilliant young filmmaker was being actively evasive, but that her tendency to cater to her introverted nature often keeps her from actively promoting her breathtakingly beautiful works of art. This fact might explain why Oreck’s latest film, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba, still sadly lacks a domestic distributor, though, thankfully, she did finally agree to meet with me to discuss her latest film which delves into a kaleidoscope of ideas pertaining to Eastern European myth and the woodlands in which the rural population continue to live their lives as if frozen in a timeless fairy tale. Touching...
- 7/28/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
"I think there is a little bit of a battle between nostalgia and reality" The 43rd New Directors/New Films in New York is presenting the World Premiere of Jessica Oreck's timely foraging of memory - The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga. On the first full day of spring, I met up with the director at Lincoln Center where we discussed the influence of Vladimir Propp, the poetic connections made for her by Andrei Codrescu, going into the forest with Robert Pogue Harrison, mycology, and how it is best to edit at the threshold.
Golden chanterelles, a shepherd and grazing horses, a woman in traditional embroidered garb sitting in front of a blue house in a tiny village. A scarecrow made out of beer cans flutters its rope arms in the wind. A dismal, run-down Eastern Bloc apartment complex, each balcony a different shade, each shabbiness a different look.
Golden chanterelles, a shepherd and grazing horses, a woman in traditional embroidered garb sitting in front of a blue house in a tiny village. A scarecrow made out of beer cans flutters its rope arms in the wind. A dismal, run-down Eastern Bloc apartment complex, each balcony a different shade, each shabbiness a different look.
- 3/23/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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