LIMITS 1st PERSON is a movie about a love lost in the loneliness of desert and regained through cinema. Using clever but extremely simple means, the film plays with the ambivalent meaning of images. The filmmaker completely inverts the significance of the images not once, but twice. Where are the boundaries of the viewer's perspective, of the first person, as the title suggests? The viewer can think he knows what he is seeing, but a smart filmmaker takes that viewer by the hand and determines his place in the world like a god. If a mise-en-scène as apparently straightforward as a woman in a desert can so enthrall us, then just how powerful is the art of film? (IDFA presentation)
