28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Touch

Touch

director: Shelly Silver
original title: Touch
country: United States
year: 2013
running time: 68 min.

synopsis

A highly subjective film essay that highlights the constructed nature of any work of art and of perception in general. After many years, a man returns home to New York’s Chinatown, where he recounts the story of his life and that of his dying mother in two languages. A film full of radical transitions between silence and words.

“Chinatown is divided into two overlapping tribes: the watchers and the watched.” “I wanted to be photographer. I became a librarian cataloguing other people‘s lives, while secretly inventing my own.”

more about film

director: Shelly Silver
cast: Lu Yu
producer: Shelly Silver
script: Shelly Silver
photography: Shelly Silver
editing: Shelly Silver, Cassandra Guan
sound: Bill Seery
Ministerstvo kultury
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Creative Europe Media
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