LA OSA MAYOR MENOS DOS

The Great Bear Minus Two

España. 2005. Color. 98 min. Ficción. .
  • Film Director: David Reznak.
  • Scriptwriter: David Reznak.
  • Cinematography: David Reznak.
Like the train that brings you from Madrid to Leganés (town where the film was shot), and shows you the back shop of factories and towns, that path that only the railroad takes; staying at the Mental Hospital becomes like watching society behind the scene. Madness has a primitive power for revelation: revelation that what is dreamy is to be real, that illusion has no limits. All reality is reabsorbed by fantastic images. This documentary has been filmed throughout a year to portrait punctual events of each season, follow the cycles of the younger patients, the improvement or even rehabilitation of the healthier, and irreversibility of the eldest.

David Reznak
David was born in Madrid in 1969. Between 1989 and 1992, he studied in the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1996, he co-founded 'El Fenakisticopio Itinerante', experimental cinema with projections in 16 mm once a week. The attendance of the public to this first project generated the following collaborations with the collectives 'El Ojo Atómico' in 1997 and 'La Zona de Acción Temporal' in 1998. In 1999, he co-founded the independent cinema 'La Enana Marrón', of which he's the current manager, and where are projected from Thursdays to Sundays, films in 16 mm and in 35 mm, out of the commercial circuits and unprecedented in our country. Jury and programmator in several cinema festivals, he gives seminars and conferences in universities and schools.
Mercado de imágenes (1992, 16 mm, 10 min) / Al por mayor (1994, 16 mm, 5’30 min) / El Pueblo protagonista y espectador (1995, 16 mm,30 min) / Como anochece amanece (1996, 16 mm, 10 min) / Rosario de Charcas (1998, 16 mm, 22 min) / La villa (2004, cm) / La Osa Mayor menos dos (2005, 16 mm, 98 min)