Word: cameraman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This rich, energetic, superbly acted film is full of marvelously developed subsidiary characters: an old cameraman who has seen it all; Mateusz's exwife, declining into drunkenness; a veteran moviemaker, prize-laden and softly cynical. All are witnesses to history, shedding light on the way large issues affect little lives. At this time, when the inner contradictions of Polish Communism are once again spread out for the world to see, theirs is testimony that should be heard...
...There is no "characterization" in the usual sense, though in the title role Albert Dieudonné gives a great silent performance of looks, gestures and poses. Mostly, however, people are used as unparticularized symbols. Nor are there many dramatically pointed scenes, only groupings in which it is up to cameraman, editor and director to ferret out (and impose) meaning-to "photograph thought," in Griffith's phrase...
Several journalists, venturing into the countryside to search out the facts for themselves, were engulfed in the violence. Among the casualties were Photographers Susan Meiselas, 32, on assignment for TIME; John Hoagland, 33, working for Newsweek; and Ian Mates, 26, a South African cameraman for a London-based television organization. Their small Japanese car was the target of a remote-controlled Claymore-type antipersonnel mine on a road about 15 miles north of San Salvador. Mates suffered severe head wounds from steel splinters and died the next day in a local hospital. Meiselas and Hoagland were evacuated...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...
REAL VIOLENCE IS, for most of us, still hideous, threatening, mesmerizing. And when a cameraman caught the murder of newsman Bill Stewart in Nicaragua last summer, all the cinematic bloodletting in the world couldn't equal the impact of that hazy, distant shot of a rifle discharging into the prone body. It was a violation...