Issue 3 | May 2006
ARTICLE
Caché (Hidden)
By Peder Clark
At the Cannes press conference for his latest film Caché (Hidden), Michael Haneke turned Jean-Luc Godard’s famous phrase inside-out. Haneke’s films have always played with this idea, challenging the audience’s assumptions about what they are watching. In Code Inconnu (Code Unknown) (2000), Juliette Binoche becomes hysterical when a child is close to falling off the roof of an apartment. It is only when we hear Binoche laugh off-screen that we find out that the entire scene is taking place in a studio where she is overdubbing her voice for a film she is appearing in. Haneke is continually teasing his audience, asking them to question their assumptions about the images that they are viewing.
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ARTICLE
Oska Bright at CINECITY, Brighton
Throughout the summer a unique festival will be taking to the roads of Britain, showcasing a wealth of short films that will undoubtedly entertain and inspire but will also challenge the audience’s perceptions of cinema, the creation of art, and our everyday experiences of life.
ARTICLE
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
By Nancy Harrison | Pepe Baena
After laying bare TV journalism (Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism) and the Iraq War (Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War) filmmaker Robert Greenwald has now taken on the corporate monster that is slowly consuming the small towns and communities of America.
VIDEO
‘Flash’
By Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez
I want to investigate the movement of bodies in a given environment. I like to create dynamic spaces that use a combination of different props, objects, structures, actors and participants. I want the props that I make to force a very direct relationship with the actors, participants and the audience.
ARTICLE
Paris Nous Appartient
Time was, in a so-called classical tradition of cinema, when the preparation of the film meant first of all finding a good story, developing it, scripting it and writing dialogue; with that done, you found actors who suited the characters and then you shot it.
