The Recording Machine
Synopsis
An encounter with three young Palestinian refugee filmmakers from the Deisheh camp, focused on their cinema endeavours. The encounter takes place via the recording machine, a Super 8 Nizo camera. Their discussion about making films as Palestinian refugees, about what it is to make films in Palestine, alternates with their own gestures, their views on the camp.
Credits
Directors (4)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producer : Ohzo Naayé
- Co-production : Association Regarde à Vue
- Foreign production company : Laylac Center
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producer : Noémi Aubry
- Screenwriter : Noémi Aubry
- Directors of Photography : Noémi Aubry, Tamador Laban, Firas Ramadan, Wisam Al-Jafari
- Editor : Noémi Aubry
- Sound recordists : Noémi Aubry, Pierre-Vincent Cresceri
- Co-producer : Clément Juillard
- Sound editor : Noémi Aubry
- Grader : Noémi Aubry
- Sound mixer : Noémi Aubry
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Research - Experimental
- Themes : Minorities, Politics, Cinema
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : France (95.0%), Palestine (5.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (France, Palestine)
- Production year : 2013
- Runtime : 9 min 24 seconds
- Color type : Color and Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.33
- Audio format : Stereo
- Rating restrictions : None
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