United States / Germany / France - French Premiere
These are Not My Images (Neither There nor Here)
The movie interweaves elements of different genres (documentary, essay,
experimental, narrative) in order to question the way we see and show
reality. It follows the voyage of a disillusioned Western filmmaker,
accompanied by a half-blind guide, and her encounter with a local
filmmaker in a skewed 'road movie' set in the near future. It evokes
the different meanings of ‘place’: a location, a territory, a context,
a situation, and a home. It speaks of being at your own place and
being (at the place of) another, about identity and otherness, intimacy
and distance.
The images refer to different modes of image-making (painting, photography,
film and video). They alternate from 'documentary' to 'painterly images'
created through digital and analogue processing.
The film questions the boundaries of the 'Documentary': How much 'reality'
do the transformed images and sounds retain? Are framing and editing
less deforming than electronic manipulation of images?
Filmography:
1985: I Won't, I Can't, or I Won't Love You When You're
Rich
1986: Passage to Utopia: Stories from the Old Ruin
1988: Animal (Loco)motion and (Dis)placements
1989: Passage to Utopia: Leaving the Old Ruin
1991: A Simple Case of Vision
1993: Passage to Utopia: Traces of a Presence to Come
1995: Squale |
| Director |
Irit
Batsry (Israël) |
| Original
Version |
English |
| Photography
|
Irit
Batsry |
| sound |
Stuart
Jones |
| editing |
Irit
Batsry |
| Production |
Irit Batsry |
| Music
|
Stuart
Jones |
| 2000,
color, 35 mm, 80' |
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