BLACK AND WHITE WORLD?

When I invited Zaneta Vangeli to realize an independent video project with Macedonian Television, my main preoccupation was to select a competent television crew, one that would be capable of “moving” professionally along the main “artery” - the author. I think I succeeded.

It was not at all my intention to make suggestions, as I usually do, because of the simple reason that I already knew all of her video works. She came with a script for a short video, narrative and technical structure elaborated, precise, descriptive and with dialogue. But our first intention for “The Judge” to be a 20 minute experimental short fell into water, because the creative sensitivity of Zaneta offers more... much more. And that is how “The Judge”  - after years - became complete now.

The visual structure of “The Judge” is accomplished through several film levels, breaking the universal “gravitation” towards shooting, editing and perceiving. The story is well-known, and the method of narration is different, somewhat unusual, based on a new “architecture” of dialogue.

In this experimental feature appear idealists and materialists, professionals as well as passionate natural born talents, renaissance enlighteners and outstanding reformists, up to small compact elites, which govern according to their worldview, with the... obedient, the disobedient... the territories... somewhere there, precisely designing the tangents along the already drawn meridians on their globuses... 

Zaneta Vangeli “saw” all of this in 1996. She has now prepared it for you... ”The Judge” is an outstanding professional experience for me. Although the tolerant philosophies repeat daily that not everything is black and white, she “here” and “at this point” organically agitates. This black and white world is not real, and has no dimension, that's why it is clearer, that is why it is more real, even more than art.

Now when I watch this feature as a video product, it is impossible not to recall the conditions and the non-conditions in which it has been realized. But that is, believe me, another feature, an interactive one, with backstage stories, human, real, with genuine “surgical” incisions and spiritual “bloodshed”.

And while you are watching the author's “breath” laid back with a cool ease, those from the crew in Skopje, Frankfurt, Boston, Providence and New York sitting in the sixth, or sixty-sixth row, tell Zaneta their story with the same title “The Judge”. Pay attention to them too, they don't know if they are:  "people who dream that they are butterflies, or butterflies who dream that they are people."  


Evgenija Teodosievska
Macedonian Television

IN EXPECTATION OF THE JUDGMENT       (HOMMAGE AU JUGE)  


In the world where illusion gets the right of dimension things become weightless, delicate and at the same time constant. There, where the physical burdens the consciousness, aware-silent, with thirst and desire for penetration into a completely different reality... Images become a very significant element, while discretely waiting for eternity. A world where only magic is self-understanding. In this case and at the present time, it is a world of bloodsuckers and murderers, who, with a completely artificial precognitivity and charm become actors in the ultimate lodge of power. And exactly when all forbidden worlds begin to lose significance, then the film begins... A fiction forged in the pixels of the grey matter...

Political correctness doesn’t function here any more, or everything is part of the global ritual of phantoms and marionettes. Dreams are reality only for a fraction of humanity, much smaller is the number of those who write them down. Whenever anyone thinks of the truth, they always conceal it. The secret of black vis a vis white is the ultimate mystery, or like, such as in one part of the movie a quite decent gentlemen will say:  All corners of my room are filled with small cameras, so small and sensitive... As if they were somebody's eyes. Maybe those are exactly the eyes of the big cosmic “Judge”, Who is a wanderer at one time, at another a top chess player... The evil is defeated, thanks to the patience and skilful hands of the artist... And, the judgement... Remains to be experienced...

Manchevsky VI Woltaire Al Hakim