Cinema
Phoenix
Феникс
Petar Gligorovski · 1976
Synopsis
A bird builds a nest and settles in it. The volumes transform, and a city emerges from the nest; an egg becomes an eye in which the sea can be glimpsed, then a man and a woman. Love and a birth follow, and the city grows back from the nest. Signs of cataclysm appear; the opening forms return, richer, amid trains, machines and crowds in motion. Everything advances by metamorphosis, on the themes of birth, the fall and the phoenix.
Context
The film runs for eleven minutes and was produced by Vardar Film. Its author wrote the screenplay, and also did the animation, the sets and the drawing; the music is by Risto Avramovski, the cinematography by Mirko Vukičević and the editing by Vangel Čemčev. It is inspired by “Barbara”, by Jacques Prévert. Its forms, polychrome and often biomorphic, recur from one image to the next. The film is said to be untraceable today, only its storyboards being known.
Who it is for
A short animated film of eleven minutes. It helps to know that the title names the bird that is reborn from its ashes.
Prizes and reception
Special Prize at the Annecy festival in 1977, then a Silver Bear at Berlin, which the sources date to either 1977 or 1979.
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