Daniel Hoflund
Il Pastore, 2011
The documentary »Il Pastore« questions the idealized imagery of Italy.
In a similar tradition to the pastoral paintings throughout history,
we once again meet a romanticized conception of a rural life in harmony.
Hoflund's portrait of a shepherd at work in the Sicilian countryside,
uses the idyllic projections from contemporary medias; especially that
of lifestyle-literature and television.
With the use of slow and still pictorial language – without any dialogue
or clear narratives – the half-hour long film reflects upon the notion of
time, generational shifts
and cultural decay. The film seems as a tribute
as well as a deconstruction of the pastoral motif, by intertwining now and
then and dissolving the notions of the fantastic and the real. Daniel
Hoflund's »Il Pastore« address – as the picturesque historical imagery –
questions on dreams, image-making and perception in a landscape where
the mythologised and demythologised wander side by side.
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