» Bill Cowell, Founder of The Buffalo Niagara
Film Festival is proud to announce a victorious
return for #2.
Bill pledges that this will be a spectacular 2nd year with large events and big
surprises to be talked about for years to come. Enjoyment to all, and to all
an enjoyable plight. See you soon.
'When
the rain stops in Norway, everyone comes
out to greet the sun. The parks are full – the
markets are crowded – but you are still
very much alone. Why do you move past others
as if they don’t exist? Why protect
the world from your feelings, your thoughts,
your true power? Kuboå reveals the
meditations of a sensitive outsider - the
life and times of an ordinary Norwegian ghost.
DIRECTOR STATEMENT
Norway was a strange place for me. Extrordinarily beautiful, but also isolating
and expensive. Add to that a health dose of Norwegian author Knut Hamsun,
and my psyche was ripe for meditations on lonliness and the supernatural.
Kuboå is not a ghost story - but a tale of feeling about the world
in a ghostly way. Why are we so detached from our surroundings? Why do we
limit our talents by focusing on the mundane? What keeps us from connecting
with other people? The word "kuboå" is not actually a word at all.
It was coined by Hamsun's protagonist in his novel, Hunger. In the throes
of delirium, kuboå seems to have some indefinable spiritual significance
- but the true meaning remains elusive.