Tribute to Denis Villeneuve 2011 / REW–FFWD / Canada 1994
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.
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.
31 min / Color, DIGIBETA
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
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National Film Board of Canada
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E-mail: [email protected]
Brigitte Hubmann
Film Institution Rep.
Denis Villeneuve
Film Director
Carolle Brabant
Film Institution Rep.
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