Goran Stolevski tells Jezebel about writing and directing the 'Macedonian language mood poem about witches in the 19th century' that killed at Sundance.
, got made, he isn’t being modest. Not entirely, at least. A “strange” film, in Stolevski’s reckoning,serves as a meditation in part on the socializing aspects of gender. In mymeets Kate Bush and you’re in the general vicinity.” I stand by that. It’s part body horror part fairy tale part elliptical philosophizing, and all together, a weird little movie that doesn’t feel little at all.
Really, they were doing it. They shot in a small village in southeast Serbia called Pokrevenik, where Stolevski says there are no residents under the age of 65, a detail with its own fairytale flair. The plot of the film follows protagonist Nevena , who is raised in isolation after her mother cuts a deal with a witch who attempts to abduct her as a baby .
“The words she speaks in voiceover, her inner words, were really the conception of the movie,” explained Stolevski. “I kind of had the sense of her consciousness and then built the story and world around it.” That consciousness gives the movie a matter-of-fact approach to a bounty of gore. “To her, whether it’s entrails being removed from a human body or leaves, it’s all just surfaces that she’s not used to because she’s been brought up in isolation from them,” the director said.
guts: “I am the most squeamish human being there is. I tend to look away from any violence or gore, but I felt like I had to honor this person who is just curious about everything.” Stolevski liked building his world through the nascent consciousness of his protagonist rather than relying on exposition, to which he says he is allergic. “I kind of want to be thrown in a situation, be interested enough to know what’s happening, figure out things gradually, and sort of come up with my own feelings—the film is just the setting for my own feelings as a viewer,” said Stolevski. “So it’s kind of making the movie for like a who’s similar to me in that sense.
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