That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants streaming HD
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35m
3.8 stars
Genre: Documentary,
Runtime:35 min •
HD •
1.6
Release add: 1978-01-01
Production:
J'aime ça?
That’s Entertainment/The Conjuror’s Assistants is an attempt to reveal some problems inherent in vérité documentary such as voyeurism, the nature/extent of a vérité intervention and audience “passivity”. A frame by frame analysis of just 100ft of documentary footage taken at a children’s Christmas party, the film shows the young man “entertaining” the adults and children and his two young assistants, the a younger boy and an older girl, and the reaction of the audience – men and women supervising children of both sexes. The visible materiality of the film is used to distance the action and encourage a reading the film as a 'text.