Surveillance
Film Information:
Year:
1993
Surveillance
País:
Directores:
Color:
Color
Format:
Betacam
Duration:
17 min
Production:
Contact:
- Illuminations Films
- Keith Griffiths
- 187 Beach Street
- CT14 6LY Deal, England
- T +44 1304 371 625
- +44 7773 374 431
- F +44 1304 389 751
- E griff@illuminationsfilms.co.uk
Synopsis
Surveillance is a 10 minute found-footage opera partly inspired by Chris Marker’s La Jetée, a kind of post-human involuntary thriller cinema. The film’s spoken commentary contains an emblematic Godardian quotation which explains the similarity between surveillance tapes and the silent movies of the Lumière Brothers, a cinema before stories or the industrial organisation of shooting materials. It is a topographical record of time and causality where only the people, weather and streets are acting.
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