<p><span style="color: rgb(34,34,34);background-color: rgb(255,255,255);font-size: small;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maintaining a light atmosphere, it manages to humorously portray the hidden mechanisms of the city and the people who make them work. Black and white allows the intersection of public and private space to be captured with a soundscape that grants a kind of musical dignity to the sounds of the city.</span>&nbsp;</p>

Synopsis

Bratislava is an exemplary post-socialist city. Its massive construction replaces the old with the new. The changing features of the city speak to us not only through the silhouettes of new buildings but also through its inhabitants. Blanka fights with loneliness on the balcony of her Petržalka apartment. The city is dotted with billboards as municipal elections await. Matúš wants to become a municipal councilor. Real estate agent Michal shows his clients images of a happy life through Bratislava apartments and two road workers paint traffic markings that guide passersby. After work, they drink beer in their boarding house and muse about life. A timid Danko observes the city, which is changing too fast for his taste. He listens to it and wishes to capture the rhythm of normalcy, the flow of the days. Where does public space cease and where does intimacy begin? This is what everyday sociology comprises.

Biography and filmography

Barbora graduated from the Documentary Film Department’s Direction of Documentary Film at the Film and Television Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. She is regularly involved in the creative process of auteur documentary films, and radio and photo projects. She directed Xenophobia (2018) as one episode of the documentary series Unsung Heroes produced by HITCHHIKER Cinema. Her film About My Sister (2016) won the main prize of the jury and the audience award in the competition section IN THE MIDDLE OF EUROPE at the 24th IFFC Febiofest. In 2020, she finished her film Symbiosis, about the architect Viera Mecková for the documentary series ICONS. At the moment she is collaborating with filmmakers Viera Čákányová and Lucia Kašová on the anthology film about ecological catastrophes in Slovakia.