cum pane - the one you share your bread with2002

It's physically demanding and sweaty. Grandma's hands are gnarled  from years of pain and hard work. Hands knead the dough. She works with rolling-pins, brushes and older baking utensils. She deftly places the bread on a peel and sets it in the stone oven. Grandpa takes care of the wood-burning , watches over it, blows life into it, again and again. He moves the bread around on the hot hearth. They work noiselessly.  Close to each other.  Crackling and pounding,  scratching and clouds of flour. It is hot. The fire  blazes. The smell of wood.  The aroma of freshly baked bread enticing as it teases.  Colors of white flour and a brown work-bench. Time stands still. Hands and dough, flour and bread. Equipment; old, worn. A punch,  made of capercaillie quills bound together, loudly smacks holes in the bread.  Whirls of flour-dust. When the bread is lifted a landscape of white flour remains on the brown work bench. An unidentifiable pattern so like the light layer of flour on a  new dough waiting in a trough. A broken stone wall or a desert - who knows? Grandma and grandpa, concentrating, the back of a head, a silhouette. No clear narrative. The bread is baking. They are silent, no idle talk. They work. We observe.

clap-bread baking - Eva and Evald Grundström
photographer- Maria Hammar Turos, fsf
sound - Jan Alvermark
editor - Håkan Wärn
producer - Lisbet Gabrielsson
musicimprovisations by AALY:
Mats Gustafsson - french flageolet and tenorsax
Ken Vandermark - tenorsax
Peter Janson - bass
Kjell Nordeson - drums
music technician AALY - Niklas Billström
soundscapes - Mikael Stavöstrand
wardrobe/make up - Malin Arnell
location managment - Christina Linder
carpenter - Peter Fellbrink
catering - Ann-Irene Linder
sound mix - Owe Svensson Mix AB
lab - Filmteknik
scanner - Kjell Amrén
grader - Sten Lindberg
online - Per Sjökvist/Mekaniken
graphic design - Johan Månsson and Jon Edergren/RMD

The film is produced by:
Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB
with support from:
The Swedish Filminstitute,
Jesper Bergom-Larsson
Film i Västerbotten Växthusfilm,
Film Stockholm, SVT,
YLE/TV 1 Co-productions,
Storumans kommun
ABF Västra Lappmarken,
Bäck Data AB and
Västerbottens museum

Distribution is supported by: The Swedish Filminstitute
© 2002 Lisbet Gabrielsson Film AB