Tri dňa

Sparse dialogues, dialogues ending with a question, missing answers - a film almost without words, yet about human communication in which intersubjectivity is manifested. Alienation of the modern human being manifested in the disrupted ability to share words, to share with one another - language cannot function between isolated individuals, and therefore Bartas' next film will be The Corridor, in which there is no talking at all. But there is also a difference compared to, for example, Antonioni, who is one of the great initiators of European cinema of alienation (of course, there are countless differences from a film perspective but here we are only concerned with the theme of modern human alienation) - geographical and temporal: Antonioni's alienation of heroes, amidst the Western prosperous golden sixties. In contrast, Bartas' world of the East at the border, disintegrating, moving from one mire to another. Here, we can relate the problem of communication to its biotope: the disintegration of the USSR, the fall of communism, the arrival of a different reality, or the end of one entire social language and the arrival of another (silent, wandering inhabitants of Kaliningrad gather on an emptying square where celebrations of the Great October Socialist Revolution, May 1, etc., probably took place a few years ago). However, it is surprising that Bartas does not directly examine current history, and therefore, his films can also be read as timeless probes into human life. (26.09.2015)