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MARTIN REPKA SLOvAKIA
TIGER FIGHT
Tel: +43 699 199 499 80
E-mail: mrepka@web.de
Intention
In the Indian metropolis Chennai I discovered a gem
- the short story Tiger Artist. Its author the Tamil writer
Ashoka Mitran gave me his blessing to adapt it. Now
I am trying to create an audio-visual world that shows
the cycle of dependency between art and capital in an
original way.
On the one side stays the poor tiger dancer Kader,
who is a metaphor for an artist struggling for recognition
and a basic living. His antagonist, the lousy
filmmaker Sharma, got stuck in his past glory. These
two characters clash together in a typical up to date
situation: in a humiliating casting with zero chance for
Kader to get a job.
Tiger Fight is a perfect experimental field for a 12–14
min 3D live-action short. Stereoscopic shooting offers
me the opportunity to capture the space with a
presents and dynamic that was not possible in 2D.
The Tiger Artist extends his hand to the audience and
takes him into another reality. The path of the Tiger is
more than reality and creates new images within the
spectator. The images invade you with the permanent
fear of the possible death of Kader.
Synopsis
It was an ordinary working day up to the moment when
KADER (29), the Tiger Artist appeared in SHARMA`s
(50) office to introduce himself. This desperate Artist
put everything on one card to get a small role as an
actor, although there was no job for him.
Sharma, who didn’t succeed for years to follow up
on his earlier successes as a filmmaker, takes the
unexpected role as a Casting Director with gratitude
and enjoys it to degrade this poor fellow. But Kader is
not stupid. He is a fighter. Stubbornly, he directs the
casting exactly right where his strength lies: the ‘tiger
dance’.
With a breathtaking dance performance in front of the
astonished eyes of Sharma Kader wins his respect.
Nevertheless there is no job. Kader collapses. He
leaves the office humbled. Meanwhile Sharma caught
fire. He sees in Kader his long-awaited chance to get
back into the spotlight. When he finally has the role for
Kader, all attempts to find the Tiger Artist fail.
PRODUCTION FACTS
Estimated Budget: 58.000 €
Financing in place: 14.000 €
Associated Producer:
PubRes s.r.o. (Slovakia)
Open for: crazy film artists & financiers,
postproduction facilities
Shooting location: India
“Director Sharma,
who lost the ability to
feel and doesn’t listen
what life brings him,
misses the chance
for a come back and
destroys the life of a
true artist - Kader.”
Director Biography
Graduate of the Film & Televison Academy
VSMU in Bratislava. Author and Director
of several internationally successful
and award-winning short films such as
Swimming, The last Supper & Thieves.
His full length feature film debut Return of
the Storks was the Slovak national entry
for the 80th Academy Awards. Besides
his artistic work, he also works successfully
as a contract director for TV and
advertising and as producer, production
manager, script editor and lecturer. Currently
he writes on two feature film scripts
and develops the short film Tiger Fight.
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