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Peter Brosens & Jessica Woodworth
The film is about the human condition seen through a Mongolian prism with its ongoing movements and tensions between past and future, between growth and decay, between creation and destruction, between the search for meaning and the encounter with the absurd. But the most essential conversation the film should inspire is about man’s fundamental need to rethink his relationship with nature. (...) Khadak is a universal tale that resonates far beyond its context and aims to evoke wonder and contemplation. Wonder at the mysteries of existence and contemplation of man’s responsibility in this world. As in art and religion, such sense of awe and wonder can only be evoked through form – filmic style in our case. Words simply won’t do!
Upon graduating in both Geography and Cultural Anthropology, Peter Brosens (Leuven, 1962) worked as an expert in urban development in Ecuador. During his M.A. in Visual Anthropology he returned to the Ecuadorian highlands to research epidemic forms of suicide and made the award-winning film El camino del tiempo (1992). Between 1993 and 1999 he directed and produced his internationally acclaimed ‘Mongolia Trilogy’ consisting of the documentaries City of the Steppes (1993), State of Dogs (1998) e Poets of Mongolia (1999), which were screened at over 100 festivals (including Venice and Toronto) and distributed around the globe.
Upon graduating from Princeton with a degree in Italian literature, Jessica Woodworth (Washington D.C., 1971) began working in Paris as a researcher for French TV in 1994. She was then a stringer and documentary researcher in Hong Kong and Beijing for European networks and magazines. She received a Masters in Documentary Film from Stanford University in 1999 then shot her first documentary, Urga Song, in Mongolia. She directed The Virgin Diaries, a documentary shot in Morocco in 2001.
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