The investigative film artist Pêra has embraced 3D film in recent years. In The Amazed Spectator, the cinematographic part of his graduation research on spectatorship, he also films in this unusual format for a film essay. He mixes action scenes in the cinema with projected interviews with filmmakers, scientists and critics such as Guy Maddin, F.J. Ossang, Laura Mulvey, Augusto M. Seabra, Olaf Möller and Wanda Strauven.
The result is a film somewhere between a manifesto and an essay, between expressionism and trans-realism. In the dialogue between different kinds of spectators, the film tries to answer a variety of questions: which is more cinema, Citizen Kane on a smart phone or a football match on the silver screen? How many different kinds of surprise can be distinguished? Do Fear and Faith proceed amazement? What are the rights and responsibilities of the spectator? Should the spectator be paid? And what is left to surprise us in these times?
Film details
- Country of production
- Portugal
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 70"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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