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film id<br />
3157<br />
section<br />
Dok Market<br />
Magic skies<br />
– a HistorY<br />
of fireWorks<br />
by Henrike sandner<br />
Fireworks enchant our senses – for a short but wonderful<br />
moment. Old family businesses have saved the<br />
tradition of fireworks to the present day. The film shows<br />
how this art form has developed over the centuries:<br />
Starting in China over a thousand years ago, we journey<br />
through the opulent Baroque era in Italy, Germany<br />
and France, experience Japanese hanabi artists in action<br />
and are also on hand to experience Guy Fawkes’<br />
Night in the UK. We see how fireworks were democratised,<br />
becoming something that everyone could enjoy and<br />
have access to – before arriving in the present where the<br />
art of fireworks is again what it was in its heyday, a<br />
celebration of money, power and beauty. Each era is<br />
interwoven with contemporary stories and artists from<br />
Asia to the United States, because anyone in the<br />
21st century who has dedicated himself to pyrotechnics<br />
is working in many similar ways to the artists of several<br />
hundred years ago. The film combines gorgeous<br />
firework displays of today with the past explaining how<br />
the makers are aiming to reconnect with the tradi-<br />
tions of their art. Fireworks are and have always been a<br />
passion and a lifestyle.<br />
genre<br />
arts / culture / Music<br />
History / politics / current affairs<br />
facts<br />
germany, united kingdom, 2012<br />
colour, HDcam<br />
52 min<br />
original title<br />
Magic skies – a History<br />
of fireworks<br />
original language<br />
english<br />
sales contact<br />
Bettina oebel<br />
looks Distribution gmbH<br />
escherstraße 22<br />
30159 Hannover, germany<br />
oebel@looksfilm.tv<br />
www.looksfilm.tv<br />
section<br />
focus latin america<br />
Magic WorDs<br />
(to Break a spell)<br />
by Mercedes Moncada rodríguez<br />
This story starts from a child’s imagination where death<br />
is romantic and heroic, then grows with the deepest<br />
love and beauty, the pain of loss and through betrayal and<br />
finally up into space. Magic Words (to break a spell) is<br />
my emotional perspective of the revolution in Nicaragua.<br />
genre<br />
arts / culture / Music<br />
Human interest<br />
facts<br />
Mexico, guatemala,<br />
nicaragua, 2012<br />
colour, HDcam<br />
82 min<br />
original title<br />
palabras Mágicas<br />
(para romper un encantamiento)<br />
original language<br />
spanish<br />
Produced by<br />
Jorge sánchez sosa<br />
amaranta sa de cV, Mexico<br />
sales contact<br />
Jorge sánchez sosa<br />
amaranta sa de cV<br />
atletas no.2 col: contry club<br />
04220 Distrito federal, Mexico<br />
jsanchezsosa@yahoo.com.br<br />
208 209<br />
film id<br />
2781
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