Share
Clip description
The interviews with 'experts’ are interrupted by various cinematic devices – sound, graphic questions crawling across the bottom of the screen and the actual image changing optically until the talking head has been removed completely.
Curator’s notes
The filmmaker Helen Grace has used traditional documentary devices to make her point that everything we look at has a point of view and is constructed to support that perspective. She reminds us by introducing a woman washing up in the background that interviews are artificial constructs, with real life edited out, for the purpose of communicating clearly. She asks questions about honesty by scrawling them across the bottom of the frame like a subtitle. Most importantly, by removing the interviewee’s image optically the power and meaning of their words is negated, showing how important context and presentation is to communicating ideas.
