Private Project

Disenchanted Cinema

The film Disenchanted Cinema takes us on a short journey to three remote mountainous villages in Mid-Western Nepal. In these villages, German anthropologist Michael Oppitz shot his legendary ethnographic film Shamans of the Blind Country (1981). A mobile cinema brings the film back to the places where it was filmed and gives the new generations an opportunity to revisit their own history through the ‘’magic’’ of cinema. Viewing their own past and present everyday life on the screen, the spectators go through a disenchanting experience.

  • Eva Pivac
    Director
  • Matjaz Pinter
    Director
  • Matjaz Pinter
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 13, 2017
  • Country of Origin:
    Slovenia
  • Country of Filming:
    Nepal
  • Language:
    Nepali
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes
  • Ljubljana Short Film Festival - FeKK
    Ljubljana
    Slovenia
    September 1, 2017
    European premiere
  • Mountain Film Festival - FGF
    Ljubljana
    Slovenia
    February 27, 2018
  • Pokhara International Mountain Film Festival - PIMFF
    Pokhara
    Nepal
    December 22, 2017
    Nepali premiere
  • Balkan Can Kino
    Athens
    Greece
    December 22, 2017
    Greek premiere
  • Travel Talkies
    Chennai
    India
    December 17, 2017
    Indian premiere
    Third place award
  • Cluj Shorts International Short Film Festival
    Cluj
    Romania
    April 25, 2018
    Romanian premiere
  • FIFEQ - International Ethnographic Film Festival of Quebec
    Montreal
    Canada
    April 6, 2018
    Canadian premiere
  • GIEFF - German International Ethnographic Film Festival
    Koblenz
    Germany
    May 9, 2018
    German premiere
  • International Student Film Festival "NEW WAVE"
    Sofia
    Bulgaria
    April 25, 2018
    Bulgarian premiere
  • LIFF - Lebanese Independent Film Festival
    Beirut
    Lebanon
    July 12, 2018
    Lebanese premiere
    Short documentary competition
  • ZAGREB TOURFILM FESTIVAL
    Zagreb
    Croatia
    October 10, 2018
    Croatian premiere
  • Inshort Film Festival 2018
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    December 20, 2018
    African premiere
  • FESTEF – Festival of television ethnological film
    Kučevo
    Serbia
    July 19, 2018
    Serbian premiere
    Special recognition
Director Biography - Eva Pivac, Matjaz Pinter

Eva Pivač and Matjaž Pinter are young directors of documentary and short films. Their current long-term project comprises the production of several documentary films shot in Nepal’s Himalayas where they are also engaged in an in-depth anthropological research. Takasera (2016) was their first film and was supported by the Irish Research Council (Dublin, Ireland), the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology in Ljubljana and Angart Film collective, Slovenia. Their recent film Disenchanted Cinema (2017), shot in Mid-Western Nepal was made in collaboration with Batoko Cinema (Kathmandu) and support of Michael Oppitz.

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