Thursday, April 3, 2008
Chef! (Chief)
What I found really interesting about Jean-Marie Teno's film Chef! was that it's a documentary film on a topic that truly unraveled itself. Jean-Marie said that he didn't have any set plans or intentions only to follow his interests within Cameroon where he was born. The interviews throughout the movie gave a strong interwoven structure that was especially impressive since the direction of the film was unclear when he conducted the interviews. The film was 1 hour long- cut down from only 10 hours of footage which seems extremely small considering the various and dynamic images within the film. All the shots really set the scene and always depicted several angles. The strength of his filmmaking eye becomes very clear because he was able to create a very complete story even without a set plan.
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Cass, I give you credit for going to the screening. Teno is a valuable filmmaker of our time. His manner of working and the poetics within his important content is noteworthy. You made great observations about his manner of working. See how open he is to the situations that unravel in front of his camera. It appears that you learned a lot from watching Chef.
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