OH SWEET HOME OF MINE
or
DISCOVERY CHANNEL REDONE
Javor Gardev – concept & camera
Kalin Nikolov – music & editing
This video was shot for Euroscreen 21 near a fishermen’s village (town of Shabla) in North-East of Bulgaria. It features a Russian river ship of the type “Volgo-Balt” sunken and abandoned in the Black Sea on the Bulgarian coast line. This image revealed to me as a visual metaphor both for the geopolitical and the spiritual condition of Bulgaria today – rusty, somehow desperate, abandoned by its own people. Still beautiful though. So, have a look at Discovery Channel. Redone.
P.S. Shortly after the ship was videoed, some local people cut off the corpus of it above the waterline. They transported the metal remains to the shore by boats and sold them to a recycling company. So, the rusty beauty is already gone now.
2002
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