26° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
THE ZONE

PLOT POINT

PLOT POINT
by Nicolas Provost
Country: Belgium
Year: 2007
Duration: 14'


Real and well-known American cop land with its howling police cars,
uniforms, ambulances, and crowded streets, very soon turns into
a perfect filmic scenery questioning the boundaries of reality and fiction,
but also narrative codes of cinema (tension curve, climax, plot point),
playing with the audience’s expectations. And the sights of policemen
and people caught on the streets seems to build a thrilling story, but
the mistery is going to remain unravelled.


“My first idea was to go and make a semi-documentary, like those
reality programmes with cops. That is why I went to New York.
I explained the cops that I was an artist and that I wanted to make
my own portrait of them, but playing with the codes of cinema.
My field of interest is to analyze and question the phenomenon
of cinema, its various elements, its influence and conventional rules.
My work is a reflection on the grammar of cinema and the relation
between visual art and the cinematic experience.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, suono, produttore/director, story, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, sound, producer Nicolas Provost
musica/music Moby
vendita all’estero/world sales Argos Distribution
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