A passport photo, a fashion shoot, an intimate portrait, surveillance footage and photographs taken by the secret police: five films ask what happens on both sides of the camera. Some people choose how they present themselves; others are recorded without that choice. Moving between personal memory and public record, the images raise questions about who controls a portrait, what it reveals and what remains outside the frame. (Boris Hadžija)
In a quiet studio in Tokyo, an iconic filmmaker poses for a passport photo that may lead him nowhere, whilst the widow who runs the studio meticulously prepares the shot, tracing the fragile persistence of memory and time.… >>>
When aspiring male models get photographed in Pakistan, they end up pushing the limits of socially decreed gender roles and taboos.
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Since 2022 German police have been using 106 surveillance cameras across seven zones in Cologne. Over one month, Nico Lorenz films the cameras back using a Super 8 cassette exposed in single frames. A performative countershot at surveillance in public space.… >>>
From 1985 to 1987, US journalist Edward Serotta photographed life in communist Romania while the Secret Police secretly photographed him. Forty years later the two sets of images meet in a shot-reverse-shot that reveals the comic side of history.… >>>