The Stone Picker
Le cueilleur de pierres
STEINPFLÜCKER

HRT, 2005/2006, documentary, color
20 minutes, DIGITAL BETA, 16:9

director/realisateur/regie: BRANKO ISTVANCIC
screenwriters/author/buch: VIDO BAGUR
camera/image/camera: BRANKO CAHUN
editing/montage/schnitt: MLADEN RADAKOVIC
composer: DALIBOR GRUBACEVIC

Synopsis:
The main character of this documentary is "the stone picker" one of the last dancers on the rocky ground and practitioners of an old and dying profession. When requested, he works in his old stone-pit, but without the use of machinery. He exclusively uses tools that require hard physical labour. He is not working in this manner because he is capricious and stubbornly insists on tradition. He simply does it because there is no other way to do the job properly. Major physical effort is required to achieve that, as well as sophisticated methodology, an original strategy and many hand-made tools as silent dance on the rocky ground. This is precisely why he is such a good character for a documentary with no dialog. This documentary searches for the answer to the question, how can such a hard way to earn a living produce such a unique and wonderful person in authentic folk dance from one moment to the his whole life...

(French)
Un cueilleur de pierres dans une ancienne carriere. Seuls quelques pas de danse et le bruit des pierres résonnent dans le silence.

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