Archive of films REW–FFWD / REW–FFWD
Canada
1994, 31 min
Section:
Tribute to Denis Villeneuve
Year: 2011
A photographer from fictitious Periscope magazine comes to Kingston, Jamaica, to meet Miss World 1976. Why does the cover of the magazine show a dead dog instead of the celebrity? An experimental documentary in the form of a psychodrama about life in Trench Town, where people live as one extended family and life follows the rhythms of reggae.
Synopsis
A photographer from the fictitious Periscope magazine comes to Kingston, Jamaica, to meet Miss World 1976. His boss warns him before the trip that he is going to a country where danger lurks around every corner and human life has no value for the local inhabitants. When the photographer’s car breaks down right in the middle of a ghetto, he soon finds out that the people, while appearing somewhat lazy, have an extraordinary sense of community, a desire for education, and, in particular, want to export reggae music. Although he gradually casts aside his prejudices, he still feels as if he is at the center of a storm. This experimental documentary about life in Trench Town, a poor quarter of Kingston, takes the form of a psychodrama; the viewer can see and hear excerpts from scenes and memories recorded by a "black box” monitoring the whole journey. The film received a New York Film Academy Award.
Contacts
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About the film
Color, DIGIBETA
Section: | Tribute to Denis Villeneuve |
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Director: | Denis Villeneuve |
Screenplay: | Denis Villeneuve |
Dir. of Photography: | Martin Leclerc, Pierre Landry |
Music: | Michel Smith |
Editor: | Suzanne Allard |
Producer: | Iolande Cadrin-Rossignol |
Production: | National Film Board of Canada |
Cast: | Lorne Brass (vypravěčka / Narrator) |
Contact: | Telefilm Canada, National Film Board of Canada |
Guests
Brigitte Hubmann
Film Institution Rep.
Denis Villeneuve
Film Director
Carolle Brabant
Film Institution Rep.