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Cinema Muzeul Țăranului -
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 - 21:00
Cinema Elvire Popesco -
Saturday, March 31, 2018 - 16:00
Written by:
Bernd Lützeler
Cast:
Mansi Multani, Pushpendra Singh, Girish Pardeshi, Harish Bhimani, Shai Heredia
Cinematography:
Bernd Lützeler
Editing:
Bernd Lützeler
Music:
Guido Möbius
Producer:
Bernd Lützeler
Romanian Premiere
Set in the dreary nooks of Mumbai’s film industry, stuck between star-cult, superstition, and the daily gridlock, Camera Threat explores the ambivalent and sometimes paranoid relationship that this film city has with the moving image itself. Seated on a casting couch, a director and an actress get trapped in their impromptu conversations on the unwanted side effects of a world that no longer bothers to tell facts from fiction. An expanded multi-genre film within the constraints of the so-called Masala Formula popularly known from Indian cinema. (Berlinale Forum Expanded)
Director:
Contact:
filmi[at]gmx[dot]de
Festivals, awards:
- Honourable Mention – Indian Film Festival Stuttgart, Germany 2017
- Berlin International Film Festival 2017
- Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal 2017
- Festival International Signes de Nuit, France 2017
- Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Russia 2017
Curatorial comment:
Lützeler’s fascination [with popular Indian cinema] grew, according to himself, from having watched an Indian film on a VHS cassette without subtitles (it was Chaahat by Shah Rukh Khan, so the legend goes): not understanding the dialogues highlighted the narrative formula known as Masala Formula which prioritises the spectacular over the logical. […] Love or family tragedies are interrupted by sequences of action, romantic songs or dances. Besides this tribute to Masala cinema, Camera Threat deals with the disappearance of celluloid, absorbed as in the rest of the world by the digital. This idea, aided by the filmmaker’s experience working in different analogue and digital formats, coupled with the concept of the film, conceived to be screened in a double projection (35 mm and digital) that blends with the screen. (Miguel Dias, director of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival)
Lützeler’s fascination [with popular Indian cinema] grew, according to himself, from having watched an Indian film on a VHS cassette without subtitles (it was Chaahat by Shah Rukh Khan, so the legend goes): not understanding the dialogues highlighted the narrative formula known as Masala Formula which prioritises the spectacular over the logical. […] Love or family tragedies are interrupted by sequences of action, romantic songs or dances. Besides this tribute to Masala cinema, Camera Threat deals with the disappearance of celluloid, absorbed as in the rest of the world by the digital. This idea, aided by the filmmaker’s experience working in different analogue and digital formats, coupled with the concept of the film, conceived to be screened in a double projection (35 mm and digital) that blends with the screen. (Miguel Dias, director of Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival)