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Short Memory Director: Dusan TRANCIK & JörgA.EGGERS Camera: Alojz HANÚSEK Author: Jörg A.EGGERS Year: 1998 Documentary (44 min.) A Land Recounted in Images The snow was thawing; water drops, was collected and turned into a rivulet and then a stream, which kept the millwheel turning – “images that repeat in history”. These images of a historic landscape southeast of the high Tatra, the Zips, or Spis, or Szepes, depending on who ruled the region, were what the filmmakers sought to capture. It was in this region, where Cyrill and Method were preaching and where Hungarian kings settled Saxons, who managed to attain autonomy in the Middle Ages. Under the banner of Counter Reformation these were again expelled, but returned and again re-migrated: Slovaks, Magyars, Germans, Roma, the Ruthann, and Jews. Margyarisation during the 13th century, integration into Czechoslovakia after the First World War, fascism, expulsion, four long communist winters. How do you recount such a complex history in 45 minutes? Off-comments are used scarcely. The filmmakers made room for the stories told by individuals who experienced the most recent migration-processes. It is them who remember what it is like to be forbidden to speak their mother tongue and to live in constant fear. A minority amongst minorities in a border-zone that was overrun by history, a forgotten landscape portrayed with irritating beauty by Jörg. A. Eggers and Dusan Trancik. (Short memory) Erich Möchel, Der Standard |
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