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GRENZELOOS
KIJKEN (Looking without Boundaries) 1rst concept concerning a
6-minute video about Malta This concept is based on the idea of Malta as a
society that has been influenced intensely through history, by a diversity of
Arab and Western countries. This
diverse cultural background is embodied in the fact that Malta is a bilingual
society where English and Maltese are official languages. Maltese is a
Semitic language, closely connected to Western Arab dialects and also bears
traces of the English, Italian, Spanish and French language. The
economy of this modern cultural melting pot is mostly based on tourism. On
the one hand you can say, cynically, that autonomous Malta is now more or
less depended on its former occupants, who now return as tourists that
recognize their former traces. It is read somewhere: “The
traveller can enjoy a refreshing balance of convenience and unvarnished local
charm”. The
idea of this short film is to expose as well the convenient side of Malta
(the tourist industry and the source of income it represents) as well as the
local charm (daily life). Therefore several sources will be used: 1- the video
will be based on pictures that I take and will convert to video later on.
Over these pictures I can film
panoramically, parts will be blown up, etc. 2- as a
second source I will use the multilingual footage from TV channels in Malta. 3- the third
source will exist of found photo- and video footage, made for personal
purposes or advertising material
found on the street etc. Audiovisual-material
from the second and third source will be edited inside the pictures (from the
first source) in a way that a fluent entity comes into being in which the
cultural multiformity of the Maltese society will be brought up on several
levels. Peter Bogers Juni
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