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The Filmmaker’s House

Marc Isaacs
United Kingdom
2020
75 min
International Premiere
Festival history

Serial killers, or anything to do with sex. These are the topics that filmmaker Marc Isaacs’ producer thinks he should be focusing on if he wants to have any chance of getting financing. Frustrated and recalcitrant, the documentary maker decides to create a film about and with the people around him: the builders who are putting up a new fence in his garden, his Pakistani neighbor, a homeless person from Slovakia whom he temporarily takes in, and his Colombian housekeeper, who has just lost her mother.

The film starts out as a classic documentary, but the viewer gradually gets the feeling of watching a scripted film. The theme of hospitality—both topical and important but hardly spectacular—is given an unexpected twist at the end that turns the entire film upside down. Isaacs thus criticizes the predictability of commercial documentaries; in contrast to the trend of tailoring facts to media formats, he presents fiction driven by authenticity. He shows how complex authorship can be—and that it is precisely what produces quality.

Credits
Director
Executive producer
    Mathew Shaw for Lush,
    Lawrence Elman for MK Studios,
    Nick Fraser for MK Studios,
    Rachel Wexler for Bungalow Town Productions
Music
    Mathew Shaw,
    Richard Norris,
    Islet
    Mathew Shaw,
    Richard Norris,
    Islet
World Sales
    Andana Films
    Andana Films
Screening copy
    Andana Films
    Andana Films

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