The Filmmaker's House
United Kingdom2020documentary75'Gdzieś w Europie (2021)
Marc Isaacs opens up the door to his house before us and reveals the secrets of the film backstage. He shows a Columbian cleaner, British workers fixing the fence in the garden, a neighbour from Pakistan serving everyone a delicious lunch and a homeless man from Slovakia who may sometimes sleep on his couch. Very skilfully, the director blurs the boundary between the documentary and fiction until the spectators start to lose their certainty about the perspective of their reception. Are the individuals on screen playing any parts? What is the director’s role? Full of invention, Isaac’s performance is amusing and disturbing at the same time.
- directed by
- Marc Isaacs
Documentary film director and producer. Since 2001, he has directed more than 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4. His films have won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards, as well as numerous prizes at international festivals. In 2006, he had a retrospective at the États généraux du film documentaire de Lussas and his work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies. In 2008, Marc Isaacs received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London for his documentary work.
- cinematography
- Marc Isaacs
- script
- Marc Isaacs, Adam Ganz
- music
- Islet , Richard Norris, Mathew Shaw
- editing
- David Charap, Marc Isaacs
- production
- Marc Isaacs
- Photo
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