Cinéma du Réel 9

Atelier Denis Cheerbrant, en hel dag med den flittige og koncentrede dokumentarist fra Marseille..

“La Totalité du monde”, 2009, 13 min. Grebet i den lille perle af en film er forbavsende enkelt. Et langt, grundigt, improviseret interview med en mand på en café, hvor den medvirkendes synspunkter er det, som vægtes, tages alvorligt af det iagttagende, sørgende og især lyttende kamera. Et eneste langt, langt billede, som altså er skrift og alligevel et øjebliks billede. Scenen, bykvarteret, som titlen hylder, er inde i det store billede, det lange take som en række vignetter og omgiver som stemning den intense enetale, som kun ledes ved små korte spørgsmål fra bag kameraet, altså fra Cheerbrant…

Allan Berg Nielsen

Allan Berg Nielsen started the first documentary cinema in Randers, Denmark way back in the 1970’es. He did so at the museum, where he was employed. He got the (16mm) films from the collection of the National Film Board of Denmark (Statens Filmcentral). He organised a film festival in his home city, became a member of the Board of Directors of the Film Board, started to write about films in diverse magazines, were a juror at several festivals and wrote television critiques in the local newspaper. From 1998-2003 Allan Berg was documentary film consultant (commissioning editor) at The Danish Film Institute, a continuation of the Film Board. Since then free lance consultant in documentary matters.

abn@filmkommentaren.dk

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