Short film

Nocturne

1997 · 18 min

A slow, wordless meditation on war's sorrow, using archival and contemporary images to create a haunting, elegiac experience.

Directed by: Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian

Overview: A silent, elegiac poem describing the pain and violence of war, made from footage shot at Sarajevo in 1995, Belgrade in 1996, and Zagreb in the 1980s, and incorporating archival footage from WWI. - MoMA

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Directed by: Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: war
violence
death
memory
grief
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
found footage
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	1
Horror	2
Humour	0
Realism	9
Romance	0
Tension	4
Darkness	8
Complexity	6
Emotional weight	9

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