{"id":8592,"date":"2014-04-26T16:18:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-26T20:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8592"},"modified":"2014-04-26T16:24:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-26T20:24:54","slug":"film-selfless-portrats-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8592","title":{"rendered":"Film: Self(less) Portraits (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Genre:<\/strong>\u00a0 Documentary \/ Hot Docs 2014<\/p>\n

Synopsis: <\/strong>The personal details of 50 ordinary people are interwoven in this lengthy collage using on-camera confessions and slightly experimental visuals and sound design.<\/p>\n

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The personal reflections, confessions, and deeply private thoughts of 50 people might be a bit heavy at 98 mins., but Danic Champoux\u2019s semi-experimental film is a meticulously arranged collage of human vulnerabilities, captured by a locked camera that occasionally slow-zooms towards the raconteurs seated against a stark white background. The topics in this NFB-produced doc may seem dour \u2013 suicide, alcoholism, marriage, motherhood, emotionally abusive spouses and childhood trauma \u2013 but the diversity of subjects assures any one viewer will be provoked and sympathize with at least one of Champoux\u2019s subjects.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one thing to see personal stories packaged between TV ads or slapped online in stark, rambling blocks of text, but the simple on-camera exchanges with the off-camera director reminds us of the natural way people discuss, seek guidance, and process personal issues.<\/p>\n

Champoux uses murky sound design and blots of bright light and dark shadows to break up and accent the confessions, and while there may not be any closure to some of the stories, the subjects\u2019 ongoing struggles makes Self(less) Portraits<\/b> especially affecting.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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The personal reflections, confessions, and deeply private thoughts of 50 people might be a bit heavy at 98 mins., but Danic Champoux\u2019s semi-experimental film is a meticulously arranged collage of human vulnerabilities, captured by a locked camera that occasionally slow-zooms towards the raconteurs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[2688,461,2592,2687],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2eA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8614,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8592\/revisions\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}