Fred Kelemen’ „FALLEN“
November 14, Media Centre:
A man of many facets, Fred Kelemen – a director, producer, cinematographer,
screenplay writer briefed the media persons about his film “Fallen”
at Media Centre in a press conference.
An iconoclastic German film personality Fred Kelemen experimented his
recent film “Fallen” screening at 11th Kolkata Film Festival
in black and white. Explaining his choice of this obsolete medium he commented
,”Form is a question of contend, an expression of attitude”
and without colours the expression is partly left to the audiences to
be imagined and felt just like in drawing in comparison to painting. He
compared his film with drawing where “with few lines a full form
can be created unlike in a painting where colours thwarts to thrive the
imagination of the audience.”
“Fallen” is a film of conscience where the director ventures
deep into the psyche of the Latvian character. It raises the basic universal
und human question of knowing one’s own conscience and act accordingly.
Finance for films has been a haunting question for all film directors
but Kelemen does not bother about it as he takes film as an art and not
an industry. He also informed about the finance scenario of the German
films.
The director rectified the media persons about a wrong information relating
to recruitment of an Indian music composer in his film. There is no music
composer for his recently screening film. Somehow it got in the internet.
“Fallen” was well appreciated by the audiences in the Festival
and it was itself a reward for the German film-maker.
Shamshad Ali
11th Kolkata Film Festival 2005
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