Watching

Running time: 7.5 Minutes
Production Format: 16 mm
Screening Format: 16 mm, B & W, Sound
Year of Production: 1994

"Watching is a short ‘experimental documentary’ shot in super 8 format in Peru. The images reveal everyday life-people cooking, dancing in the street, young kids hanging out interspersed with the images of striking miners. This mix of anger, despair and joy are blended together to say that all of these are the ingredients of life here- one is not more important than the other. Together they reveal the power of ordinary people and culture. The‘ romantic’ music that accompanies the images and the use of ‘watching’ eyes serve to critique mainstream culture and its view of the ‘third world’.

Phil Hoffman
Filmmaker - Professor

SCREENINGS:

• Emily Car Institute, Changing Imaginary Borders In The Americas
• Vancouver, B.C. 1999
• Images Festival, Toronto 1996
• Mixed Arte Mezclado, Latin American Artist Festival. Toronto 1994
• Pleasure Dome, Toronto 1994

AWARDS:

• Best Cinematography - 9th Annual National Student Film & Video Awards, Canada. 1995.
• Award of Merit for Experimental Film. The Media Arts Department, Sheridan College/Pleasure Dome. 1994.