O Espectador Espantado
Playful and very wayward - it is after all a film by Edgar Pêra - documentary essay about the viewer. Interviews with a variety of writers and thinkers about the nature of watching films is juxtaposed with staged 3-D action in cinemas and other spots where we now watch the moving image.
Part of the Dag van de Dwarse Film, in cooperation with the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The investigative spirit of film artist Pêra embraced 3-D film in recent years. Also in O espectador espantado, which is the cinematographic part of his graduation research about spectatorship, he films in this unusual format for a film essay stop he mixes action scenes in the cinema with projected interviews with filmmakers, scientists and critics such as Guy Maddin, F.J. Ossang, Laura Mulvey, Augusto M. Seabra, Olaf Möller and Wanda Strauven.The result is a film somewhere between a manifesto and an essay, between expressionism and trans-realism. In the dialogue between different kinds of spectators, the film tries to answer a variety of questions: what is more cinema - Citizen Kane on a smart phone or a soccer match on silver screen? How many different kinds of surprise can be distinguished? Do Fear and Faith proceed surprise? What are the rights and responsibilities of the spectator? Should the spectator be paid? And what is left to surprise us in these times? (IFFR)
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