The Waiting Point by Maša Drndić awarded in Jakarta

Documentary film The Waiting Point by Maša Drndić has been awarded with D.A. Peransi Award at the recently ended Arkipel Festival in Jakarta, Indonesia. The D.A. Peransi Award is an award given to a prominent film directed by an emerging filmmaker that contributes to the festival through provoking ideas on social issues in a documentary or experimental form.

The D.A. Peransi Award is an award given to a prominent film directed by an emerging filmmaker that contributes to the festival through provoking ideas on social issues in a documentary or experimental form.

The Waiting Point is a film that discusses identity issues in relation to the shifts taking place amidst the preparations for the entrance of Croatia to the European Union. The narrative style of the film is poetic and straightforward. The film experiments with the technique of voyeurism derived from the approach of cinéma vérité. The director’s choice in deploying black and white color strikingly brings the audience closer to the colorful everyday reality.

Through his works, D.A. Peransi seemed to suggest that a film should establish social, political, and cultural relations with the public. In The Waiting Point, the camera is present to reconsider the impacts of the decisions made by the state and corporates upon people.

http://arkipel.org/arkipel-2013-awards-goes-to/

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(D.H., 06.09.2013)

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