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THE LAST BALLAD OF A SNIPER David Reznak has just premiere the documentary “The Great Bear Minus Two” David Reznak is a sniper. One of those that, stationed in his rooftop- the Madrid’s cinema La Enana Marrón- didn’t stop to shoot us a real independent cinema, truly out of the commercial demand highways. And not just this, his bullets have been beating us in shape of experimental short films, upright, always with the look on the edges, up to the première, after a long battle, of his first feature film: The Great Bear Minus Two, a patient and poetic documentary about madness that was awarded in L’alternativa festival. A look to the society from one of its most painfully and sometime most revealing edges. Reznak has not stopped. Has not stopped from looking to the borders of what is consider prioritary. “I’m interested in those things that don’t interest, to tell a marginal story and make it exist”. He did it in Rosario de Charcas, while telling the stories that spring up around the Manzanares river, marginal by definition. In Al Por Mayor, He also paid attention in the surroundings of a wholesalers market, where those who don’t have anything collect wasted food remains. The Great Bear Minus Two is the disturbed mirror in where we can see ourselves, is the demonstration that madness can be just “a radicalization of personality”. And it can arouse the fascination of a trail in the sky. A hospital filmed. Ninety minutes of an unsolved humanism, of a sometimes tragic restlessness –the carnival scene is devastating-, sometimes lucid – some Isabel talk-. It’s the result from a year and a half shooting in the Psyquiatric Hospital of Leganes, where, in 1978, came in the cameras of Carlos Rodríguez Sanz and Manuel Coronado to shoot Animación en la Sala de Espera. The attention that Reznak pays to the edges is also formal. He has made his sign of these outdated formats like super8 and 16mm, of which reels don’t exceed nine minutes. In this last format he shot The Great Bear... getting an even more dismantling density. Maybe we could stop seeing him showing from the projection booth of La Enana Marrón. If everything goes well, he will go more to the border: to Africa, triangle’s vertex of his next documentary. Maybe, warns, will stay around Mali.
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