The Dog Trace

The video is dedicated to our dog, who loved to dig holes in the sand and in this way, he did his doggy land-art. The video is also about the relationship between man and the animal (dog). (But you don't have to believe me too much!)

  • Nэno Bэlchэv
    Director
  • Nэno Bэlchэv
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    КУЧЕШКАТА ДИРЯ
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Other
  • Genres:
    video-art
  • Runtime:
    11 minutes 11 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    February 22, 2018
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Bulgaria
  • Country of Filming:
    Bulgaria
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Nэno Bэlchэv

Neno Belchev graduated in Mural Painting from the National Academy of Art in Sofia, Bulgaria. Neno works as video artist and filmmaker as well as in the fields of performance, installation, sculpture and new media. He has made one full-length movie, four medium-length documentaries and numerous short narrative films and video art works, which won prizes, awards and nominations from international video and film festivals in the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Spain and Austria, as well as residency-grants in the United States, Russia, China, Japan, France and Portugal. Тhe most prestigious one recently: XXVII-th CEC ArtsLink Fellowship Award for Foreign Artists (New York, USA). His works are possession of Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China), SAMSA (Sofia Arsenal Museum for Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria); private collections in the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Spain, Ukraine and others. Mr. Belchev is one of the founders of the International Video Art Festival Videoholica, Varna

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Director Statement

In my art works, I work in my own direction. My task as an artist is to look through the cover of things in their real essence. To provoke the people to see how of front of their own eyes their own world is changing. For me the art is a form of communication with other people and the artists has in their hands the art as a tool, in which the opportunity to provoke and change the thinking of the others is hidden.

I “say” seemingly well-known truths and facts, but by matching them with contradictory but very strong visual elements, which if considered at one level, seem to be in conflict with one another both ideologically and visually, but the appearance of these contradictory elements change the meaning deep in its roots and make it multileveled. As a result of it, I achieve multilevel message with strong irrational impact, which does not have to be considered by using logical thinking. The art is beyond the direct message. In my work, I use very often humour, beside that in the other hand I take my art very seriously.

The art is my way to be free.