The Illusion

Name: The Illusion
Genre: Documentary
Released: 06 Feb 2009
Rating: 8.00

Susana Barriga’s documentary, the illusion, begins with violence. A long shot reveals a man standing on a street corner, his features indiscernible in the night. He moves out of the camera’s line of vision, but the filmmaker, persistent, moves with him as the jostling of the camera marks her steps. As we learn moments later, the man in the distance is Susana’s father – and this is the clearest image of him we will have. Suddenly, an angry British man demands that Susana cease filming. Susana protests in heavily accented English, “He is my father!” Glimpses of a man’s torso are followed by blurred images as the camera spins rapidly over surfaces. The image cuts to black. A new male voice asks in carefully spaced out words if Susana would like him to call the police. When she doesn’t respond immediately, he speaks louder, as though volume would compensate for the language difference. She gives her name; she refuses the offer of an ambulance.

Year: 2009

Genre: Documentary

Studio: EICTV, Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV)

Director: Susana Barriga

Cast:

Crew: Susana Barriga (Writer), Susana Barriga (Director), Fabio Meira (Writer), Eduardo Cáceres (Sound Mixer), Susana Barriga (Production Manager), Nicolás Tsabertidis (Sound Mixer)

Runtime: 24 minutes

Release: Feb 06, 2009

IMDb: 8.00/10 by 1 users

Popularity: 0

Country: Cuba

Language: Español