Special Features
By James N. Kienitz Wilkins
12 min ● MiniDV-to-HD ● Color ● Stereo ● English ● USA ● 2014
An interviewee interacts with an interviewer, recounting a special experience at once unique and shared.
Assuming the familiar form of a sit-down interview, the role of the interviewee is quickly revealed as an edited performance on aged videotape, and depending on one’s “behind-the-scenes” knowledge, a performed interview, or documentation of actors performing text they are reading in real-time from a teleprompter, covering seemingly personal and uncomfortable topics normally left unsaid.
Screenings:
MONTREAL INT'L DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL (RIDM) 2017
PLASTIK FESTIVAL OF ARTISTS' MOVING IMAGE 2017
NOVEMBER FILM FESTIVAL 2016
JERWOOD STAGING SERIES 2016
WORM ROTTERDAM 2016
MIGRATING FORMS @ BAMCINÉMATEK 2016
KASSEL DOKFEST 2015
MONTCLAIR FILM FESTIVAL 2015
UNIONDOCS 2015
NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 2015
25 FPS FESTIVAL 2015 - Winner: Grand Prix
MESSAGE TO MAN 2015
MEDIA CITY 2015
EDINBURGH 2015
CHICAGO UNDERGROUND 2015 - Winner: 3-Point Lighting Award for Innovative Technique
MONTCLAIR 2015
ANN ARBOR 2015 - Winner: George Manupelli Founder’s Spirit Award
CPH:DOX 2014
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