I Miss Sonia Henie
Experimental
During 1971 Belgrade Film festival Karpo Godina recruited seven masters to direct a segment of the film, intercepted them at the hotel and handed them a 1-page set of instructions..
The rules for this film were simple. Each director would make a 3 minute film. The film was to take place in one room, with the camera in a single position. No changing of lenses, framing, angle or position would be allowed. The camera position and room were the same for all segments, though props could change scene by scene. During the film, someone must say “I Miss Sonja Henie”.
All shooting was done at night or early in the morning during the festival, on 35mm.
Directed by Karpo Godina, Tinto Brass, Miloš Forman, Buck Henry, Dušan Makavejev, Paul Morrissey, Frederick Wiseman / Yugoslavia / 1971
[…] Poster, produced as a contribution to Surfing the Black, a research project about Yugoslavian ‘Black Wave’ cinema, 2010, 700 x 1000 mm. Part of the project, initiated by Pietro Bianchi, Dubravka Sekulić, Gal Kirn and Žiga Testen at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, was to invite some designers to design posters about the films under discussion. Each designer or team was assigned a particular film, and in our case, it was I Miss Sonia Henie ‘curated’ by Karpo Godina in 1971. You can see the film here. We said the film was ‘curated’: below is some information about the film we found on the internet. […]
[…] “1971년 베오그라드 영화제에서 카르포 고디나는 영화 한 편을 함께 만들 감독 일곱 명을 섭외하고, 호텔에서 만나 한 쪽짜리 지시서를 나눠주었다. 규칙은 간단했다. 각 감독은 3분짜리 영화를 만들면 된다. 모든 영화는 같은 방에서, 카메라를 같은 위치에 고정한 채 촬영한다. 렌즈나 프레임, 앵글, 위치를 바꾸면 안 된다. 카메라 위치와 방은 모두 같아야 하지만, 소품은 장면마다 달라도 된다. 영화 중간에 누군가는 반드시 ‘소냐 헤니가 그리워’라고 말해야 한다. 모든 촬영은 영화제 중 밤이나 이른 아침에, 35 mm 필름으로 이루어졌다.”↗︎ […]