PULSE
26 min. I Hungary I 2016creative documentary
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of southern Hungary and is home to more than 1,500 strong red deer. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first caught in the forest and brought to the farm only 25 years ago – and the handling of them is still a physical conflict between man and animal.
PULSE is a poetic, creative documentary playing on the line between raw reality and dreamy, sensorial experience. Through the deer farm, the film gives a close look at human-animal relations and the way we deal with nature. The film interweaves present day footage with archive photographs from the beginning of deer farming in Hungary in the 1980s. The story follows the beat of the rhythmic pulses transcending the deer farm: from the skittish deer to the farmers who keep them to the electric pulsation running through the fences separating the farm deer from the wild.
PULSE is a poetic, creative documentary playing on the line between raw reality and dreamy, sensorial experience. Through the deer farm, the film gives a close look at human-animal relations and the way we deal with nature. The film interweaves present day footage with archive photographs from the beginning of deer farming in Hungary in the 1980s. The story follows the beat of the rhythmic pulses transcending the deer farm: from the skittish deer to the farmers who keep them to the electric pulsation running through the fences separating the farm deer from the wild.
Director : Robin Petré
Producer : Robin Petré/Doc Nomads
Editing : Robin Petré
Cinematography : Robin Petré
Sound Design : Rudolf Varhegyi
Music by : András Emszt
Creative Consultants : Tamás Almási, Péter Forgács, Attila Kékesi, Karen Everett, Tamás Kollányi
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Producer : Robin Petré/Doc Nomads
Editing : Robin Petré
Cinematography : Robin Petré
Sound Design : Rudolf Varhegyi
Music by : András Emszt
Creative Consultants : Tamás Almási, Péter Forgács, Attila Kékesi, Karen Everett, Tamás Kollányi
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FESTIVALS & AWARDS
59th DOK Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany 2016
Silver Dove for an Outstanding Artistic Contribution,
International Competition for Short Documentary and Animation
19th FICMEC International Environmental Film Festival
Canary Islands, Spain 2017
Best Short Documentary Film
14th FIKE Évora International Short Film Festival
Évora, Portugal 2017
Best Documentary
20th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Industry Section; Jihlava, Czech Republic 2016
Silver Eye Award/Best Short Documentary
14th Doclisboa
Lisbon, Portugal 2016
Green Years Award
ECOFEST
Bucharest, Romania 2016
Best Short Film
14th Festival International Signes de Nuit
Paris, France 2016
Special Mention for the Signs Award
23rd Listapad - Minsk International Film Festival
Minsk, Belarus 2016
International Film School Award (shared prize)
Sheffield Doc/Fest
Sheffield, UK 2016
Nominated for the Student Doc Award
47th Visions du Réel
Nyon, Switzerland 2016
Nominated in the Premier Pas competition
29th Minimalen Short Film Festival
Trondheim, Norway 2017
Nominated in the Nordic Competition
14th Docudays International Human Rights Doc Film Fest
Kyiv, Ukraine 2017
Nominated for the Docu/Short Award
15th Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival
Bristol, UK 2017
Nominated for the Wiley Blackwell Student Film Prize
19th Mecal Pro – Barcelona Int. Short and Animation Film Festival
Barcelona, Spain 2017
Nominated in the International Competition
22nd International Environmental Film Festival Green Vision
St. Petersburg, Russia 2017
Nominated in the International Competition
Ethnocineca
Vienna, Austria 2017
Nominated for the International Short Film Award
Apricot Tree International Documentary Film Festival
Yerevan/Ujan, Armenia 2017
Nominated in the International Competition
6th ForadCamp Cinema & Nature Exhibition
Figáro-Montmany, Spain 2017
Nominated for the International Shorts Award
BIFED - Bozcaada Int. Festival of Ecological Documentary
Bozcaada, Turkey, October 2017
Nominated in the International Competition
FIC AUTOR - Author’s International Film Festival
Guadalajara, Mexico 2017
Nominated in the Int. Short Documentary Competition
26th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA 2017
14th BOGOSHORTS - Bogotá Short Film Fest
Bogotá, Colombia 2016
24th European Film Festival Palic
Palic, Serbia 2017
20th CinemAmbiente
Turin, Italy 2017
7th Ecofalante Environmental Film Festival
São Paulo, Brazil 2018
11th Cinéma Vérité Iran International Documentary Film Festival
Tehran, Iran 2017
11th Cinema Planeta Festival Int. de Cine y Medio Ambiente de México
Cuervanaca, Mexico 2019
Tokyo Documentary Film Festival
Tokyo, Japan 2018
6th Lakeside Doc Festival
Naukuchiata, Himalaya, India 2018
Docu Memento
Tokyo, Japan 2017
Whakapapa Film Festival
Irsina, Italy 2018
Hebrides International Film Festival.
Hebrides, Scotland 2017
FIDÉ Festival Internacional do Documentário Estudantil
Curitiba, Brazil 2017
BIDF - Budapest International Documentary Festival
Budapest, Hungary 2016
DOCfeed
Eindhoven, Netherlands 2017
14th World Film Festival
Tartu, Estonia 2017
Festival International Signes de Nuit
Chambéry, France 2016
MOV - International Student Film Festival of Pernambuco
Recife, Brazil. 2017
Balassijev Inštitut screening
Ljubljana, Slovenia 2017
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