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FLOOD (2024). Hommage à Gaston Bachelard.

Directed by Mart Raukas Producer: Mart Raukas/ Penteli Institute/Penteli Film Genre: short intellectual drama/warning film Release date: 2024 May Duration: 5 min. 00 sec Countries: Estonia FLOOD film (2024). Hommage à Gaston Bachelard. SYNOPSIS (short) The short film exposes the warning signs of moral and environmental decay on our planet, serving as a wake-up call. A popular and picturesque recreation area, located next to the city of Tallinn in Estonia was sold by greedy politicians for large-scale sand mining. The area was brutally exploited and turned into lifeless wasteland. SYNOPSIS (long) Our planet is turning into wasteland: We are very close to exhaustion of our moral-, social- and other resources. Small things can be read as big alerts. “Flood” experiments with scale and acoustical effects.. The "canyons" are in reality 1-2 meter high traces of brutal digging. The raw footage was shot in a huge sand quarry, situated near Tallinn/Estonia, where previously a popular recreation area of the city's residents was located. Sold off by greedy politicians, this beautiful area was brutally exploited for excessive sand mining and turned into lifeless wasteland. Filmed from extremely low camera positions. Edited as still-life minimalistic landscape pictures. Combined with dramatic sky panorama and agony scream reflections from sand quarry iron monsters, an impending cataclysm is predicted by approaching rain and thunderstorm. A Note on Film Aesthetics In his seminal work L'eau et les rêves (1942, translated as Water and Dreams in 1983), the renowned French philosopher Gaston Bachelard draws a fundamental distinction between the formal and material imagination. The material imagination refers to primal warning sounds and elemental visual forms – the very foundation of what might be called the "Peeled Eye" aesthetics in documentary filmmaking.