Kamis, 26 Mei 2011

BATERRY MAN

Dusan Cavic and Dusan Saponja were selected for the Discovery Campus Masterschool 2009 with their project The Battery Man. The Discovery Campus Masterschool is a European vocational training initiative which offers proffesionals and up-and-coming talents in the documentary film sector specially tailored training possibilities and connects them with international decisionmakers. It is supported and funded bz the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union.The selection committee, which consisted of internationally renowned commissioning editors, chose Dusan Cavic and Dusan Saponja and their project The Battery Manwith regard to its potentional to reach international audience. Their project was selected out of 136 projects from 22 countries.Four workshops, personal tutoring and an intership make up the 10-month Masterschool.It culminates in a final pitching session which is attented by more than 40 international decisionmakers from Europe and abroad. The four compulsory Masterschool workshops,lasting 5 days each, will provide insights into the whole process of setting up international coproductions. Furthermore, two experienced international tutors who are carefully chosen for their specific areas of expertise will support each participiant.www.discovery-campus.deThe Battery man is a documentary about Slaviša Pajkić, a fifty-odd years old man from Serbia, better known as Biba Struja (Biba the Electricity). His body is capable of accumulating electricity, and Biba can consciously control its power while discharging it.Can his powers, which are very much like those inherent to the “Heroes” series characters, or to the “X Man” film characters, really help cure people with various ailments? Will he succeed in accumulating enough electricity to become a laser?Besides the expert and scientific analysis that will be carried out by eminent local experts in this field in their laboratories and hospitals, we will also present Biba’s everyday life and his commuting between his place of residence, Pozarevac, and his place of work, Kragujevac (both towns in Serbia). Electrical Biba is forced to live on the margins of Serbian society, on (mis)using his powers by “curing people with electricity” in Central Serbia, in the town in Kragujevac.One part of the film will be dedicated to Biba’s past, which is very interesting. He hold two entries in the Guinness Book of World Records, one as a man who survived a 20,000 V electric shock, and the second one as a man who heated a glass of water almost to the boiling point with his bare hands in less than two minutes. He was interviewed by almost all the local TV stations in Serbia, and he also volunteered to try out the electric chair in Los Angeles back in 1984, but he was allegedly refused since such a feat was illegal according to the USA laws.This documentary will be made as a combination of animation, available archive materials and filmed materials with no static dialogue takes. By using a science fiction body art approach, we shall try to bring this unique man from the margins of socially accepted norms to the very center of artistic focus.
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