Beshkempir . Beshkempir
Duration: 01:18:00 A Kyrgyz/French co-production, the film "Beshkempir" restores the traditional Kyrgyz way of life in such a full value and such a precision as to create an impression of a documentary. Director Aktan Abdukalykov believes that the aesthetics of the film that is built upon...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | Kirghiz |
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Kolar, Chedomir ; Alybaev, Irizbai
1998
Kyrgyzstan |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:177a8c2c-259b-429f-ba7e-fbe7fbad48e6 |
| Summary: | Duration: 01:18:00
A Kyrgyz/French co-production, the film "Beshkempir" restores the traditional Kyrgyz way of life in such a full value and such a precision as to create an impression of a documentary. Director Aktan Abdukalykov believes that the aesthetics of the film that is built upon the combination of several observation-episodes recalls of the aesthetics of the traditional Kyrgyz patch-work quilt - kurak, or tekemet, where each patch of fabric is a memory of concrete person. Not accidentally then, the film opens with a splash of color - a close-up of a beautiful tekemet, which introduces the film's theme and structure. The film starts with the picture of five women - besh kempir - holding a ceremony of socialization for an infant: an orphan baby adopted by a childless family. In order to protect the boy from the evil eye they give him the name - Beshkempir. Once a teenager, the boy learns that he was adopted and starts to look at his parents differently. The only person with whom he prefers not to analyze the matter of relations is his grandmother who dearly loves him. However, there comes a moment of growing up when the issue of origins stops bothering him. |
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| Published: | 1998 |