Traveler culture and the proliferation of digital photography inspired this impressionistic essay that takes pictures of people taking pictures. Filmed in Laos, where the local crew remains anonymous because there’s no freedom of the press, the scant 60-minute documentary captures the intersection of local culture and tourism in the Southeast Asian country of Laos.
Director-cinematographer Malcolm Murray and writer-interviewer Michael Meyer claim to not be making a statement or positing a thesis but just asking questions. Certainly there’s evidence to back their claim: Interviewees are allowed to ramble unprompted on topics ranging from a college-age girl’s post-travel aspirations to become a photojournalist to an old hippie’s casual admission of consorting with a human trafficker.
But one suspects there is commentary in the carefully constructed juxtapositions: A couple waxes poetic about the beauty of the local flora and fauna while a local woman hangs laundry on lines...
Director-cinematographer Malcolm Murray and writer-interviewer Michael Meyer claim to not be making a statement or positing a thesis but just asking questions. Certainly there’s evidence to back their claim: Interviewees are allowed to ramble unprompted on topics ranging from a college-age girl’s post-travel aspirations to become a photojournalist to an old hippie’s casual admission of consorting with a human trafficker.
But one suspects there is commentary in the carefully constructed juxtapositions: A couple waxes poetic about the beauty of the local flora and fauna while a local woman hangs laundry on lines...
- 6/27/2010
- Moving Pictures Magazine
A sharp, subtle critique on the nature of tourism and photography, the enigmatic documentary Camera, Camera follows a handful of diverse Westerners traveling through Laos, paying special attention to the snapshots they take along the way. Making his feature-length debut, director-cinematographer Malcolm Murray has created a tone-poem about this Southeast Asian nation’s seductive hold on outsiders, introducing us to college kids looking to party, old men seeking easy sex, and professional ...
- 6/19/2010
- indieWIRE - People
A sharp, subtle critique on the nature of tourism and photography, the enigmatic documentary Camera, Camera follows a handful of diverse Westerners traveling through Laos, paying special attention to the snapshots they take along the way. Making his feature-length debut, director-cinematographer Malcolm Murray has created a tone-poem about this Southeast Asian nation’s seductive hold on outsiders, introducing us to college kids looking to party, old men seeking easy sex, and professional ...
- 6/19/2010
- Indiewire
David and Flora in Lisa Leeman’s One Lucky Elephant The Los Angeles Film Festival will take place from June 17-27. Camera, Camera: (Director Malcolm Murray Writer Michael Meyer, Producer Josh Haner.) This gorgeously shot, poetic documentary, set in the free-for-all playground of Laos, gazes at the ex-pats and tourists who live out their fantasies of the "exotic East" through the lenses of their omnipresent cameras. World Premiere Circo – USA/Mexico: (Director Aaron Schock, Producers Aaron Schock, Sally Jo Fifer, Jannat Gargi.) The Ponce family – who have owned a traveling circus for over one hundred years – find themselves struggling to survive a growing family conflict and the severe economic downturn in this beautifully crafted documentary. World Premiere Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone: [...]...
- 5/5/2010
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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