once i got in, it was hard to get out

synopsis

Ida is cleaning out the house that her grandfather, an artist, used to live in. She wades through a studio overflowing with artefacts, oddities and lost history. Similarly to S P A C E S, Štrbová treats the theme of memory and loss, combining fiction and documentary, letting the images of nostalgic childhood and the suffocating past flow associatively. To the sound of Francesco Geminiani's Concerto grosso no. 12, subtitled Madness, the fragile physicality of both dead and living relics stands out. The head of a dead parrot, a cast of her grandmother's breasts or a moss-covered real estate agent represent the discoveries of a personal archaeological site and exhibits of an introspective museum of family history.

“I like the fact that you don’t have to deal with whether things are fiction, animation or documentary. Nowadays, such pigeonholing is unnecessary. A film is just a film.”

Source: Film a doba

biography

Nora Štrbová (1994) is an artist and filmmaker, born in Bratislava. She studied animation at FAMU, where she is currently studying documentary film directing. Her film S P A C E S (Ji.hlava IDFF 2020) was screened at Visions du Réel and IDFA and was nominated for the Czech Film Critics Award. Her music video Distress premiered in Annecy. Her other films screened at Ji.hlava were Let's All Come Back to Earth (Ji.hlava IDFF 2020), That One Time Shaman Sasha Decided to Eradicate the Demon from Putin (Ji.hlava IDFF 2020) and Currents (Ji.hlava IDFF 2021).

more about film

director:	Nora Štrbová
producer:	Hana Šormová
script:	Nora Štrbová, Hermína Perič
photography:	Kryštof Čížek
editing:	Alan Sýs
sound:	Jan Mesany
art director:	Františka Malasková

contact

Hana Šormová hanasormova@gmail.com