Guy

A young, female filmmaker, alias Camera, turns the streets of Los Angeles upside-down in her hunt for a subject for her film. When she meets Guy, an unsuspecting man standing on a street corner, she decides that the film will be about him. Camera is fascinated by this stranger, who seems to be tough, cynical and vulnerable at the same time. To begin with, Guy is reluctant to tell intimate details about his life to a film camera; however, he cannot resist Camera's pressure. Soon, a process of inexorable dissection of his life has started, as well as a mutual exposure of him and the person behind the camera. To be the centre of attraction and to have the camera's undivided attention affect Guy to such an extent that he becomes obsessed by it. The presence of the camera effects his behaviour, makes him cross the line and turns his life into an emotional whirlwind. The filmmaking process is changing Guy's life, and does not leave the filmmaker behind the camera unaffected. The longer their collaboration continues the deeper they are thrown into the spiral of disclosure, exploration and lust that the filmmaking evokes. Guy revolves around two characters; and the spectator is only allowed to see one of them from the other's point of view. While Guy is in picture, Camera is only made known through her voice and her specific visual style. Although she is never shown to us, she certainly has an active influence and a character. Her voice and those parts of reality she chooses to reveal open up passages to her inner life and reveals to the spectator who she really is. As a descendant from the New Wave, in its form as well as content, Guy examines the complex structure of intimacy between people living in a modern world. In this world, the camera is a natural participant and can be used as a weapon, a defense mechanism or a seducer. It is even possible for it to assume the role of a priest and act as confessor. Its power to change shape is what forces us to accept it as an intensive and revealing part of our lives. The camera penetrates our private spheres in order to explore and expose. Guy points out, however, that this trespassing into our lives is not forced upon us but extremely voluntary since the camera does not only reveals but also intervenes.

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Vincent D’Onofrio, Hope Davis, Kimber Riddle: Producent
Renée Missel: Manus
Kirby Dick: Foto
Arturo Smith: Musik
Geoffrey Beal: Talat språk
English