There are zooms and wide shots and lots of zooming in it. “My cinematographer was showing me Todd Haynes’ first film, it’s called Safe. “Regarding the inspiration, we looked at lots of photos from young photographers from Germany the US.
“Because we had this cold community, it was very easy to make the film like that: very static with a very cold colour palette. “And then when you have your own aesthetics you have to find the aesthetics for the film. “He also doesn’t like handheld camera and he also preferred those kinds of colours when he makes his own stuff. “We got on well with my cinematographer and my artistic director – we felt the film in completely the same way. It was a story about a Czech au pair, so you had to shoot it abroad and you had to have actors from abroad.” “My ambitions weren’t like, Let’s make the first film in English and break down the borders. “Also there was communication and talk with the crew. “So there is this thing, which I’m continuing. There are lots of wide shots and static shots. “When you look at my previous work, it’s quite similar to this one. “I think there are some kind of aesthetic feelings which I have inside of me which I prefer – some colours and compositions. Where did you draw inspiration for the film, either from other movies or from other art forms? There’s much more to A Certain Kind of Silence than this weird sect, or this weird behaviour. Which is more kind of middle class, normal people living in houses? “So I get the philosophy from them, and of course the way they raise the kids, but we made a fictional community in our film.”
Video of Film Trailer: Tiché doteky / A Certain Kind of Silence “They even have a stall at Jiřího z Poděbrad Square, where you can meet them.” “The Twelve Tribes is a hippy community living on farms, getting money from ecological farming. “Also I would like to mention – the film is inspired by them, it’s not really about them. “So of course they are also doing it here. You can find YouTube videos where they present themselves like that. “But when you know that they live in this kind of way in Germany… the way they raise their kids is not a secret. “But I haven’t read anything more about an investigation or anything like that. “After they moved to the Czech Republic, there were some articles about them and I think the police even came there. I guess you’re not a journalist, but do you know has anything been done with them ? Any investigations, or anything like that? And mainly they are the people who were in Germany.” “But now there are already two communities in the Czech Republic. “They had been here before – just one small community. “So the German community moved to the Czech Republic. “But in the Czech Republic it is allowed to teach kids at home and you can also use some kind of physical punishment in raising your kids. “They were able to break down the whole community in Germany a bit, especially because in Germany you have to send kids to public school and they are not allowed to use physical punishment. After the case which was in the news, the police came and took the kids away from the parents. Is it the case that in Germany the members of this sect had their children taken away from them because they were treating them so violently? So the German community moved to the Czech Republic.” “In the Czech Republic it is allowed to teach kids at home and you can also use some kind of physical punishment in raising your kids. “And he recorded the way they raise the kids there, which is with physical punishment.” “He was able to record by glasses with a camera, and by an external camera that he put in the cellar of the farm. “I also talked with a journalist, because the reason why the case was in the news was that one German journalist sneaked into the community. I started to read about them and I interviewed some people who had been part of the Twelve Tribes. “They were raising their kids in a very strange way and the police came and there was an investigation.” “Then I read one article about a German community which lives on farms in the middle of Germany.
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“I was curious about the process – the steps how to manipulate people. “So I was watching lots of documentaries and reading lots of books and theses about the process of manipulation. “And very easy you can get to sects and cults, because they are based on that. “I was studying manipulation and how society is able to manipulate individuals and how individuals are able to manipulate society. “I want to, and I feel that I should somehow, reflect the world and the time that I live in, so I chose this topic. I felt like we are surrounded by this theme in many layers of our lives.
Michal Hogenauer, photo: Ian Willoughby“In the beginning I was curious about the theme of manipulation.
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