Facing

Switzerland, 2004
FILM, Fiction, 7 min.

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directed by
Johannes Maier
Status
In distribution

The focus of this film is a documentary by the BBC cameraman Darren Conway, who accompanied British soldiers in the most recent Iraq War as an “embedded” journalist. In it Conway reports on the situation in which his unit found itself and on his personal perceptions of the theater of war. In Facing Johannes Maier confronts the journalist with his documentary. In the glow of the low-contrast images on the monitor Conway comments on his own work, which was several months old at the time he was viewing it. The result is a constellation, as dense as it is complex, between author and film, between current events and memory, between authenticity and dramatization in the media.

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World Premiere
2004
Original Version
English,  colour, Digi Beta, 7 min.
Production
Fine Arts Unternehmen AG
Producer
directed by
Johannes Maier
Cinemato­graphy
Johannes Maier
Editing
Johannes Maier
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