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ADAM FUSS, A LANSCAPE OF IMAGINATION
An intimate portrait of the noted contemporary photographer, Adam Fuss, shot
over a year in New York and Sussex, England. Our documentary delves into the
artist’s creative process, and the life forces that inspire it.
53 minutes, USA October 2017 Directed by Svetlana Cemin
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Meet Adam Fuss and the film Svetlana made about him:
ADAM FUSS, A LANSCAPE OF IMAGINATION
A Landscape of Imagination is a feature documentary that portrays the intimate life of Adam Fuss, a British photographer who lives in New York City. In this film we see two faces of Adam, one as a public figure whose influence in art is internationally acclaimed and the other is of a loving father and devoted son, who maintains a solid balance between those two separate worlds. This journey, almost two years long, reflects the images of Upstate New York, and Sussex, England: Nature that is incorporated in Adam’s work, as an inspiration and motivation to reach the depth of his subconscious mind. As a result, we experience life through Adam’s eyes that is magical and also poetic.
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Director's statement
"This documentary about his life brings us very close to his world of creation of Adam Fuss, a well known British artist based in New York City, who uses photography to express his dreams and visions. This film was shot in a period of sixteen months, between
the United States and England.
If the truest poetry comes from freedom of articulating the things that move our imagination, then Adam successfully uses his camera to keep his images alive. His subjects — sometimes snakes, water, ghosts among many other mystical things — manifests his desires for the unknown, and relentlessly bring attention to every little detail Adam shifts to light.
I have known Adam for a long number of years, but only recently has he inspired me to visit his creative world. It happened one afternoon on sunny island called Hydra where he payed visit to our mutual friend late Lisa Libman Adams. We spoke about the time that had passed and I tackled the idea that certain things could be documented. He agreed, and soon after we were together inside his studio in New York filming the water falls turned into photographs, then his snakes, his visits to Arden and the last part of the journey took us back to his native land, where we found Fenny, his mother and the village in which he grew up in. As he drew me into his dreamland, I realized that I was going to be totally immersed in it rather than being an outsider who was simply documenting his journey where everything became an improvisation glowing with spontaneity; needless of any script. The documentary work proceeded smoothly, regardless of the weather conditions and of the limited amount of time that we had in the schedule.
What I thought that was a truly remarkable during this unique shooting experience, was the fact that there was virtually no difference between the countryside in Sussex or Upstate New York, nor between his studio in Chelsea or his cottage in England. We simply lived in a timeless zone.
There was also a certain glare to things and objects, which made me feel that all was alive, and that I could be inside of one or many finished or unfinished of pieces of his work since Adam has a fascinating quality of being fully present in each moment; and while his very fresh memories take us back to his own boyhood, it all felt like an easy slide between today, yesterday and tomorrow.
Svetlana Cemin
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Executive producer: Svetlana Cemin
Director: Svetlana Cemin
Producer: Svetlana Cemin
Producer: Saint Clair Cemin
Co producer Ivica Vidanovic, Babak Rassi
Screenwriter: Svetlana Cemin
Editing: Babak Rassi
Original music: Janja Loncar
Director of photography: Niav County /Anton Phatianov
Cinematography: Niav County
Light design: Niav County
Sound recording: Matt Fesso Nicholas Bohun
Adam Fuss, a landscape of Imagination : a 610 film production by Svetlana Cemin Feature documentary 53 minutes
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CEMIN Svetlana 
