Film Screening

Whitechapel Gallery | 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London e1 7qx

In conversation screening with filmmaker Babette Mangolte and Ian White, Adjunct Film Curator, Whitechapel. Presented in association with LUX.

'An experimental film which acts out the view of a photographer on her subjects and the city she lives in, New York. The film uses a technique of subjective camera, to give to the spectator an active sense of the problematics in the relation of camera to subject, photographing to photographed. "The film is a description of the act of making photographs from the point of view of the still camera and therefore the point of view of the photographer. This technique of 'subjective camera' places the person who looks at the film in the same relation with the screen as the one of the photographer with her subjects, therefore giving to the spectator, on a first-hand basis, so to speak, a direct experience of the tension as well as the wanderings and timing of a photographic session, and a way to understand and perceive the relation between photographer and subject, a relation which is not about dialogue but about power, power of saying yes or no to the taking of the photograph, power however undermined by the elements of anxiety (coming from both sides, the subject and the photographer).