KUZDOK [THE STRUGGLE] is the brief tale of a young artist shaping stone into a statue which begins to resist its creation, sculpting the sculptor in the process. KUZDOK was awarded the Palme d'Or for Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977.
On a cold day in November, a family of deer hunters returns from the field to the barn. A cinematic poem about deer hunting, masculinity and a fresh kill. Shot on Super-8mm black-and-white film on location in Wisconsin.
A woman reads Philip Lamantia's poem (from which the film gets its title) which evokes masculine angst as a hand acts out the scenario of the poem.
As disembodied cries move through the rooms of a house, their emotional intensity provokes a reanimation of the dead, cosmic shifts and the manipulation of time and space.