Once I Got in, It Was Hard to Get Out (2024)
Ida is cleaning out the house that her grandfather, an artist, used to live in. She wades through a studio overflowing with artefacts, oddities and lost history. Similarly to S P A C E S, Štrbová treats the theme of memory and loss, combining fiction and documentary, letting the images of nostalgic childhood and the suffocating past flow associatively. To the sound of Francesco Geminiani's Concerto grosso no. 12, subtitled Madness, the fragile physicality of both dead and living relics stands out. The head of a dead parrot, a cast of her grandmother's breasts or a moss-covered real estate agent represent the discoveries of a personal archaeological site and exhibits of an introspective museum of family history.
Director:
Nora Štrbová
Writers:
Nora Štrbová, Hermína Peričová.
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Juliána Brutovská as Ida |
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Michael Vrzala as Ištván |
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Klára Ščevíková as Holčička |
| Directing | Nora Štrbová | Director |
| Production | Hana Šormová | Producer |
| Writing | Nora Štrbová | Screenplay |
| Writing | Hermína Peričová | Screenplay |
| Camera | Kryštof Čížek | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Alan Sýs | Editor |
| Sound | Jan Mesany | Sound |
| Art | Františka Malásková | Set Decoration |
