The Land of Abandonment I.: The Girl With a Whip

synopsis

Voice, face, body and whip. In a tense monologue, a girl looks back at the long shadow cast by the act of rape, which has materialized in the surprising form of an all-too-vivid whip. Slowly receding, the camera zooms out to accompany the moment when she manages to unclench her fist, rid herself of the powerful instrument and speak in her own voice.

biography

Eliška Lubojatzká (2001) studies at the Centre of Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. Her work draws on the visuality of fairy tales and dream environments and deals with personal and collective memory. Her first short film Zagovory (2021) was screened at the Ji.hlava IDFF and subsequently at Other Visions at the Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art (PAF Olomouc).

more about film

director:	Eliška Lubojatzká
producer:	Tomáš Šimon
photography:	Kristina Kůlová
editing:	Mikuláš Svoboda
sound design:	David Procházka
Consultant:	Béla Tarr
production manager:	Milena Dobosh

contact

Marek Koutesh / FAMU
marek.koutesh@famu.cz