Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021. Forget Alberto for now /
A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things fall apart. They film pigeons instead. The artifice of documentary becomes the subject itself: where do...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | German Arabic French |
| Language Notes: | In German, Arab, and French with English subtitles. |
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London, England :
Royal Anthropological Institute,
2020.
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| Series: | Shorts RAI Film Festival 2021
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | A refugee known only as Alberto flies from Athens to Brussels on a fake passport. Three years later, a small crew from Berlin tries to make a film by shooting the landscape of his transit. Things fall apart. They film pigeons instead. The artifice of documentary becomes the subject itself: where do we stand between image and meaning? Forget Alberto For Now is an essay that probes our roles as authors and spectators, and interrogates the politics of narrative: to whom do stories belong, and who has the right to tell them? The director asks, "What happens if we don't want to film the protagonist ... Can a pigeon be a protagonist? |
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| Item Description: | Title from resource description page (viewed July 12, 2023). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (19 minutes) |
| Playing Time: | 00:18:21 |