Made while director Kaori Oda was studying at Béla Tarr’s Film.Factory in Sarajevo, Aragane is, on the surface, a documentary about a Bosnian coalmine. As Oda takes us underground, the surroundings are illuminated solely by the available light of the miners’ headlamps, creating a state of sensual semi-blindness that both attunes us to the dangers of the mine and — with the beams cutting arcs of light through the blackness and casting shadows on the cavern walls — becomes an organic metaphor for the roots of cinema itself. It is not surprising that commentators have drawn similarities between Oda’s work and that of Harvard’s renowned Sensory Ethnography Lab: as in such films as Leviathan and Manakamana, in Aragane Oda attempts to understand her subjects through an embodied presence that moves beyond distanced knowledge and towards intimate entanglement.
“[Aragane] literally reinvents my idea of what cinema is and can be — and not only because it unfolds mostly in darkness … it has an exquisite formal and even abstract beauty that is complemented, complicated, and sometimes even contradicted throughout by a continuous human presence” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).
Container: Matroska Runtime: 1h 7mn Size: 963 MiB Video Codec: x264 Resolution: 1280x720 Aspect ratio: 16:9 Frame rate: 25.000 fps Bit rate: 1 843 Kbps BPP: 0.080 Audio #1: 2.0ch AAC LC @ 147 Kbps
https://nitro.download/view/F2D176E010E8230/ARAGANE_HD_WEB.mkv
Language(s):Bosnian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)
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