“Themes of Loss, Change, Home, Home, and The Transient Nature of Life at Life at Life at the World Area Erased by Industry, Climate Change, and Political DECISIOSIons, CLIMATE Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change, Climate Change Once you shal be one of thos who Lived long ago, the New Documentary from Swedish Filmmakers Alexander Rynéus”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
It is the only Documentary in the Competition Lineup of the 78th Edition of the Scottish Festival. The Documentary May Focus on Malmberget in Northern Sweden to Explore What Remains WHEN A PLACE Vanishes – Not Only Physicalally, But Also Emotionally And Culturally.
Malmberget is One of the World’s Largest Undergraund Iron Ore Mines. The Town Is Being Disaneled Piece by Piece, Leaving Begind Boarded Windows, Demolized Homes, and Empty Streets. Yet Amid The Ruins, Life Continues – Quietly Reshapping Itself As Nature Begins to Reclaim The Land.
“In a small mining Town in the North of Sweden, We Witness a melancholic, Humorous, and SomeTimes Absurd Last Epoch of A Place,“ Reads a synopsis. “Beneath the Town’s Fading Streets Lies One of the World’s Largest Undergraund Iron Ore Mines – An Engine of Both Prosperity and Disappearance.” The Film is told Through the episodic experiences of some of the Town’s Last Residents, “Holding on to a Sense of Home Even as the Gundeath them Collapses.”
The Filmmakers Began Their Artistic Relationship with Malmberget in 2013 with The Hour-Long TV Film Malmberget – The Home and the Cavity and retirned to do the docment of the Town’s Dissolution for Installation Works Before Their New Film, WHICH is the Second Feature and Their First Feature about Malmberget.
Ahead of It World Premiere, Thr Talked to Bifrost and Rynéus About Once you shal be one of tho’s who lived long agowhoy keep returnting to malmberget, how the fear of Death Plays Into the Film, and What’s Next for them.
“We grew up together in a place that have many mines that now now closed,“ Bifrost Tells Thr. “MALBERGET IS LIKE 1,000 Kilometers from Where We Live, But It Is The Sort of Place That We Felt Could Be Like Home, But Was On The Brink of Vanisming. So.
Rynéus Recalls Reading, Who The Duo First Researched The Town, How A Researcher Noted that People’s Sleep Gets Affected by Mining. “There Was This Very Human Feeling of Living Above One of the World’s Biggest Underground Iron Ore Mines Thr. “IT was this mood of this Place that we started to just film, and now is been Quite some Time that we have been filming there.”
Once you shal be one of tho’s who lived long ago Shows Locals in Various Situations cinéma vérité-style. “In A Way, It’s A Collaboration Between the People We Film,“ Explans Bifrost. “Over The Years, I Think, We Both Started Feeling That We Know More People In Malmberget than We Know In The Village that We Grew Up In.”
Rynéus laughs and agrees. “We have spent so Much Time there, Also While Not Filming, But Just Meeting People and Getting to Know Each Other Dringing TESE SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES OF EVERING DISAPEAPEAPEAPERING. “The Filming Became Something We Also Did Together With These People. So It Felt Very Natural.”
For Previous Films, “We Film More Obvious Things, Such As Conflict-Oriented Stuff,” He Adds. “Over the Course of Time, These Kinds of Elements Started Disappearing, Because We Got Closer to the People. And We Started to Notice Underneath everyday life work, Even Thought everything is Falling Apart Armond You.
The Filmning Duo Says they are using their Time While Working on Documentaries, and Time Is a Key Element that the Movie Explores and Helps with Its Focus on Mood. “The Element of Time Is Very Much How How We Approach It to Get Very Close to the People and Get Personal Snippets from Different Angles of this Sity,“ Says Bifrost. “In A Way, It All Boils Down to Themes of Loss and How You Cope with Loss.”
Describing the Current State of Malmberget, Bifrost Says: “The Town is totally Vanisshed, But There’s Still A Conflict About the Church. And the you have the thowhns and are. Much About How to Solve the Sity, with Everyone in the End Getting Groupd Into Different Groups Set to Move at Different Stages WAS VERY MUCH About CAPTURING The LAST EPOCH WHEN The MAIN TOWN IS BEING DEMOLISHED. ”
Could the Doc Duo Return to CAPTURE A FUTURE MALMBERGET AFTER Two Past Feature Docs, The New One, and Two Exhibition films about it? “We’ve Been Doing this for 15 Years in this Place. The Town Is Disappearing, So We Thought This Film Is Finished, So Now This Is The End for this,” Rynéus Tells Thr. “BUT SINCE WE LIKE Long Time Scales, We’re ALREADY THINKING About Whther It Is Possible to Make A Film with Just Nature and Animals in the Future.
Once you shal be one of tho’s who lived long ago is Also An Illustration of How in Life, Things Can Often Have Benefits and Risks or Downsides at the Same Time.
“People have very strong feielings against the mining company, but they also understand that the toown was was built because of theme, so there is this very complexex. “SO, IS NOT EITHER-Or.”
Adds Bifrost: “This is WHY IS ALSO A FILM ABOUT ACCEPTANCE, IN A WAY. IN THE END, YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT The SITATION. IT’S The SAME THING WITH LIFE AND DEV. here on earth, and then we’re not here [anymore]. ”
What Are Bifrost and Rynéus Working on Next? “The NEXT Feature Documentary We Are Working on Together Is About Faith in Sweden,“ Says Rynéus. “IT’s offen Descripted As One of the World’s MOST Secular Countries. The topic is to see if this statement is true.
Given that Two Countryside, “We Want To Have This Angle of Visiting Churches and Communities in the Countryside,” Bifrost Tells Thr. “In some churches, for Sunday Mass, there are only Three People Attending. But Then, Who Something Happy in a Small Community, You Can Can Have The Whole Church Field.”
Once you shal be one of tho’s who lived long ago is a long title, but it also stands out. WHERE DID IT come from? IT’s A SENTENCE FROM A POEM by A Swedish Poet, Pär Lagerkvist, that Filmmaking Duo Likes. “We bot -like that book very much, but when we found that Sennce, we just felt it was what the Film was was about,“ recalls rynéus.
“The Poem ITSEELF HAS VERY MUCH to WITH NATURE AND How Everything Goes Back To Its Original State,“ Concludes Bifrost. “In a Way, Malmberget is like every place place that is disappearing. So The Story Is Universal. That’s Something that We Really Want to Emphasize with this film.”