At a press party at last month's Tribeca Film Festival, I had the chance to speak with Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood, co-directors of a bizarre quasi-documentary called Buried Land. The movie is about three ancient pyramids, even older than those in Egypt, that some people claim can be found beneath three large hills in central Bosnia. Think of the supposed vortexes of Sedona, Arizona, on a grander scale. Geoffrey and Steven told me that they made the film because they wanted to explore why people will persist in believing unprovable, even irrational claims in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence to the contrary. Their film has been called "an inventive hybrid of fiction and documentary." I found it both fascinating and disturbing on several levels. Last week, I followed up our conversation at Tribeca with an email interview....
- 5/24/2010
- by Joseph Smigelski
- Huffington Post
When you think of Egypt, one thing that must immediately come to mind is the pyramids. They're part of the national image, and no matter what else happens to the country, historically, politically or otherwise, they will always be at the forefront of Egypt's identity. Now, when you think of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the first if not only thing that comes to mind is likely war and genocide. And that's a pretty terrible identity to have. Especially given that it's been 15 years since the end of the Bosnian War.
But what if Bosnia also had pyramids, and they were larger and older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt? This question was brought up five years ago with the globally spread story that three pyramid-shaped hills in the town of Visoko might have been man-made as early as 14,000 years ago. Now a controversial and potentially worsening matter in terms of Bosnia's image,...
But what if Bosnia also had pyramids, and they were larger and older than the Great Pyramids of Egypt? This question was brought up five years ago with the globally spread story that three pyramid-shaped hills in the town of Visoko might have been man-made as early as 14,000 years ago. Now a controversial and potentially worsening matter in terms of Bosnia's image,...
- 4/27/2010
- by Christopher Campbell
- Cinematical
Channeling cinematic influences as wide as Orson Welles' F For Fake and plenty of Jean-Luc Godard's pseudo-documentary experiments, Steven Eastwood and Geoffrey Alan Rhodes' Buried Land is an intriguing work of formalist filmmaking. Set in the Bosnian town of Visoko, which may or may not have ancient pyramids underneath its hills, the film is a narrative documentary, with both fictional characters and genuine documentary footage: its storyline concerns an American film crew (led by co-director Rhodes) that has come to Visoko to make a documentary about the supposed pyramids. In tow with them is Emir (Emir Z. Kapetanovic), an emigre who hasn't been back to Bosnia in years, and is seeking to reclaim some of his cultural identity. As the film progresses, we begin to see the profound effect that the existence of the 'pyramids' has had upon the townspeople of Visoko, as well as the film crew themselves.
- 4/24/2010
- TribecaFilm.com
The ongoing media shift to online entertainment has just moved even further. The Tribeca Film Festival has decided to bring its annual festival online to home viewers. If you've ever waited on the lines at Tribeca, you can understand the importance of this digital upgrade. Now, you'll be able to bypass the lines - at least for a select group of films. Right now, the festival only appears to be screening eight feature film, which Tribeca is calling premium films, and 18 shorts from their full schedule. The feature films include: - Buried Land from Directors Geoffrey Alan Rhodes and Steven Eastwood - Elvis & Madona Directed by Marcelo Laffitte - Freetime Machos Directed by Mika Ronkainen - Into the Cold Directed by Sebastian Copeland - Nice Guy Johnny Directed by Edward Burns - Possessed Directed by Lee Yong-ju - The Sentimental Engine Slayer Directed by Omar Rodriguez Lopez - Spork Directed...
- 4/6/2010
- by Alexis James-Whitehead
- BuzzFocus.com
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