Delirium (2013 film)

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Delirium
DELIRIUM POSTER en.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Ihor Podolchak
Written byIhor Podolchak
Produced byIhor Podolchak
Ihor Dyurych
Tamara Podolchak
Liliya Mlynarych
StarringVolodymyr Khimyak
Lesya Voynevych
Petro Rybka
CinematographyMykola Yefymenko
Edited byIhor Podolchak
Music by Alexander Shchetynsky
Production
companies
MF Films
Podolchak Films
Paulus von Lemberg
Distributed byIhor Podolchak
Release date
Running time
96/100 minutes
CountryUkraine
LanguageUkrainian
Budget850,000 € [1]

Delirium is a 2013 Ukrainian psychological drama film produced and directed by Ihor Podolchak, premiered in Director's Week Competition in Fantasporto (Portugal, 2013), [2] awarded with the "First Prize" [3] at Baghdad International Film Festival (2013).

Contents

Delirium is the second Podolchak feature film. The screenplay is based on the novel Inductor by Ukrainian writer Dmytro Belyansky.

Plot

A family asks a young psychiatrist to be their guest for a while and help look after their father who's developed a suicidal fixation for ropes and knots among other things. It is also possible that the mental health of the guest is the real cause for concern.

Cast

Mykola Yefymenko (DOP), Ihor Podolchak and Lesya Voynevych (Mother) at the movie set. 2008 Delirium Movie Set 2009 2 2.jpg
Mykola Yefymenko (DOP), Ihor Podolchak and Lesya Voynevych (Mother) at the movie set. 2008

Production

Work on the script had begun in the spring of 2008 and was completed on the eve of filming. The director's development and preparatory period were financially supported by the Hubert Balls Foundation (The Netherlands). In search of locations for filming, the film group carried out a long expedition on the Carpathians and Transcarpathians of Ukraine. The first stage of filming took place from August 1 to September 15, 2008, in the suburbs of Lviv - Briukhovychi and Horodok, the second stage was held in Kyiv in late 2009 - early 2010. In total. The shooting was conducted on a digital Red One camera. Almost the whole film, with the exception of the first and last scene, was shot with the help of the Tilt- Shift lenses, which made it possible to create a specific image with uneven focus distribution along the frame, plane and various geometric distortions of the frame content. In the scene, which was filmed in Gorodok church, an Oscar-winning Garmoshka crane [4] and a gyrostabilized panoramic head Flight Head [5] of the renowned [6] Ukrainian company Filmotechnik were used.

Editing, color correction, and sound design were made on Apple hardware and Apple software: Final Cut Studio, and Logic Pro. Visual effects were made in Adobe After Effects. The sounds from the set were not used. The voices of three male characters - the Father, the Guest, the Son - was performed by the Kyiv actor Vitaly Linetsky. The sound design of the film was performed by well-known Ukrainian musician and TV showman - Miroslav Kuvaldin. The final edition of the sound was made by Igor Podolchak and Igor Durych in 2011.

Music

The score was written and performed by Alexander Schetinsky. Initially, the director and composer planned to use the traditional musical genre Dies irae, which is part of the Catholic Mass. Were written six completed instrumental parts, named according to the sections of the Latin mass: Dies irae, Quantus tremor, Mors stupebit, Ingemisco, Tuba mirum, Lacrimosa.

The composer limited himself to the means of the symphony orchestra and did not use any text or vocals. The music does not contain direct illustrations, and, in particular, thanks to avant-garde style techniques, paradoxically combined with names, appealing to the surrealism principles, which fully corresponded to the aesthetics of the film. However, during the work the authors decided to use only two musical parts - Mors stupebit at the beginning of the film (initial titles) and Dies irae on the final credits. [7]

During the unfolding of the film, music does not sound at all. Thanks to this, the initial and final musical fragments acquired additional dramatic significance: an introduction to the "problematic" of the film (the effect of tuning on the corresponding aesthetic "wave") and a semantic generalization.

Interpretations

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Still

Like in his first film Las Meninas , Deliriu appeals to the intricate family sagas, which appear in the novels by Witold Gombrowicz, Milorad Pavic, and Bruno Schulz. Unlike the sagas Luchino Visconti ( The Damned ) or Ingmar Bergman ( Fanny and Alexander ), Podol'chak avoids narrative but everything happens outside the space-time continuum with a focus on psychological states. His characters are arbitrary, which is emphasized by archetypal names: Father, Mother, Daughter.

Developing the themes set in his first film Las Meninas, Podolchak in Delirium somewhat modifies the "family" structure - introduces into the hermetic nightmare the "other" character - the person from the side. But this "stranger" (the main character is the Psychiatrist, a kind of heir to the narrator from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe) shows himself not as an alien body. His invasion does not cause any changes in the "family organism". The family absorbs the "alien", turning him into a full participant of a strange game, the exit of which does not exist. [8]

From the point of view of cinematic genres, more accurately subgenres, Delirium can be attributed to the so-called "stories about the house with no way out" or "stories of houses with ghosts." From the films of the first category, the closest is Singapore Sling and See You in Hell, My Darling by Nikos Nikolaidis. From the films of the second category, you can, for comparison, recall The House on Telegraph Hill by Robert Wise and The Others by Alejandro Amenábar. But unlike the films by Wise and Amenabar, in Podolchak's Delirium the spectator encounters the concept of "erroneous suspense" when the director seems to create an atmosphere of anxious anticipation, but these premonitions of something terrible are being destroyed by the characters' inadequate reaction on them.

Suspense, performed by Podolchak, is self-destructing. It has no point of view "from the outside", there is no coordinate of "normality", relating to which the viewer is able to oppose herself/himself to screen suspense. The viewer becomes this obscurity. Thus Podolchak provokes a feeling of acute claustrophobia [9] - there is no way out from Podolchak's "home-world". The spectator, like the characters, does not know is there anything beyond the boundaries of the place where she/he is at the moment. Since "this moment" has the ability to loop, then the flight "from here" becomes simply impossible.

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References

  1. ↑ Podolchak's Interview, YouTube. Retrieved March 7, 2013 (in Russian)
  2. ↑ Fantasporto 2013 Director's Week Competition [ permanent dead link ], IMDb. Retrieved March 6, 2013
  3. ↑ Baghdad International Film Festival
  4. ↑ Filmotechnik Garmoshka Crane Retrieved July 14, 2018
  5. ↑ Filmotechnik Flight Head Retrieved July 14, 2018
  6. ↑ Filmotechnik Awards Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved June 29, 2013(in Russian)
  7. ↑ 02/27 / 190761_mirovaya_premera_ukrainskogo_filma.html World premiere of DELIRIUM, lb.ua. Retraived on March 22, 2013
  8. ↑ Підгороа-Ґвяздовский, Я. Фільтр для марень, Український тиждень, 1 октября, 2010, Retrieved April 1, 2013(in Ukrainian)
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  10. ↑ Baghdad International Film Festival
  11. ↑ Fantasporto 2013 Director's Week Competition, IMDb Archived 2013-04-24 at the Wayback Machine .
  12. ↑ Odessa International Film Festival Archived 2013-07-21 at the Wayback Machine . Retrieved June 29, 2013
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