Robin Petré - Portugal, Belgium / 2015 / 26’ mts
One of Europe’s largest deer farms lies hidden in the hills of southern Hungary and
houses more than 1,500 deer. The animals are essentially still wild. They were first
caught in the forest and brought to the farm in the 1980s – and still today, the handling
of them is a physical conflict between man and animal.
PULSE is a poetic, creative documentary playing on the line between raw reality and
dreamy, sensorial experience. The film interweaves present day footage with archive
photographs from the beginning of deer farming in Hungary. The story follows the beat
of the rhythmic pulses transcending the deer farm: from the skittish deer to the farmers
who keep them to the electric pulsation running through the fences separating the farm
deer from the wild.
Through the setting of the deer farm, I aim to give a close look at human-animal
relations and raise unanswered questions regarding ownership, colonization,
dominance and the idea of the Anthropocene Era and what it means. My aim is to let
the camera adopt a certain naivety and unspoiled curiosity. To let it wander and find
its focus on unexpected details of the deer body without the eternal interruption of the
intellect.
vimeo.com/robinpetre/pulsetrailer
