Man at Work 2:

SANDPIT #186

BY ADINA PINTILIE & GEORGE CHIPER

2008/ 20’ / Romania
 
MAN AT WORK IS A DIPTIC, WITH PART 1: THE FEAR OF MR. G, AND PART 2: SANDPIT #186.
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE OTHER PART.
 

 

AWARDS & FESTIVALS


  • Locarno Film Festival 2008 – Here&Elsewhere/Author Shorts
  • Special Mention – Trieste International Film Festival 2009
  • Second Prize – Miami International Film Festival 2009
  • International Film Festival of Beijing Film Academy China 2008
  • Semana de Cine Exprimental de Madrid Spain 2008
  • Brasilian International Student Film Festival 2008
  • Warszaw International Film Festival 2007
  • Mediawave International Film Festival Hungary 2009
  • Sofia International Film festival – Best Balcan Shorts 2009
  • Kiev International Film Festival Molodist Ucraine 2008
  • Romanian Film Festival London 2008
  • Romanian Film Festival Toronto 2009
  • Critics Award – “Cinemaiubit” International Student Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania,2007
  • Best Film Award – Ffest Student Film Festival, Romania, 2007
  • Anonimul International Film Festival, Romania, 2007
  • Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania,2007
 

SYNOPSIS


Outskirts of an industrial city. A deserted sandpit and its solitary tenant.
One day – an ordinary day -, in his empty concrete and iron world a stranger comes.
Nothing seems to change.. but things are not the same anymore.
 

“SANDPIT #186″ is more a poem than a story about solitude and longing, about our essential need for the other and, yet, about the impossibility of real contact between people. Nevertheless, in our “disenchanted” world, this longing/search for the Other, what we call ”love” in any of its unexpected forms, seems to be our only way to access a possible ”divinity”, our only way to deny nothingness.

 

CAST & CREW


 
  • with: RICHARD BOVNOCZKI, GABRIEL SPAHIU
 
  • written and directed by: ADINA PINTILIE & GEORGE CHIPER
 
  • cinematography: GEORGE CHIPER / IULIAN NAN
 
  • editing / sound design: VLAD VOINESCU
 
  • set designer: ANDRADA CHIRIAC
 
  • executive producers: VLAD VOINESCU, ADINA PINTILIE, GEORGE CHIPER
 
 

STILLS


 
   

2008

year of production

20 min

running time

35mm

exhibition format

1:1.85

aspect ratio

2.1 stereo

sound

Romanian

language

English

subtitles

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by Adina Pintilie & George Chiper - 2008 / 20'