HUBA (Parasite) - Forum

by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal
Poland 2013, 66 min, Super 16 mm transferred to 35 mm

produced by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal, Sadie Coles HQ 2013

 

Huba (Parasite) is a film about an ailing old man and a young mother. After retiring from the factory, the man, deprived of his daily routine, loses control over his time. Unable to eat or sleep, he starts drying up. The mother and child are like a single organism. Yet their relationship is, for all its closeness, one of dependence and inequality. The child, whose at- tachment to life is the strongest, is ravenous and needy; the woman, though enjoying a brief moment of freedom, is doomed to be a victim, while the old man has nothing to keep him going now that he can no longer work at the factory. When the three of them try to have a life together, they are like the Holy Family reversed. Brought together by chance, their lives inter- twine in a web of oppression. The film follows their daily existence and slow decline.
Anka Sasnal

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