Oliva OlivaFrance
2005, 70min.
 Script/ Dir./Dir. of Phot./Sound/ Edit.: Peter Hoffmann.
This is a journey into the lives of Spanish honeybee keepers in the extreme south of Spain. Hoffmann shot this film over a period of two years, without crew or even a sound man. Alone with a Super 8 film camera, he joined Oliva’s family, expecting to film the traditional honey production before the expropriation of their farm. But day after day, this burlesque adventure is becoming a road movie across the remotest part of Spain, following Bunuel’s footsteps and his mystical film Las Hurdes.
Awards
Grand Prix, Prix Best Sound (Festival International Documentaire De Marseille 2005).
| Hoffmann, Peter Peter Hoffmann
Born 1957, Bad Godesberg, Germany.
In 1979-87 he studies of Art at Fachhochschule Hannover. Free artistic activities. Experimental and documentary short films. Since 1991 a collaborator of the non-commercial and independant cinema “Kino im Sprengel” in Hannover. Film-concerts. Different jobs, officially unemployed.
Filmography (selected)
Abscheuliche Auffuhrung der Selbstentlarvung (1991), Alle Autos der Nordstadt (1992), Ein Platz fur Biere – das Bier in mir (1992), Ohrenklingen (1994), Musik Pausen Film (1996), L’annee derniere а Rasigueres (1997), Oliva Oliva (2005).
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