The Illusion

The Illusion

2009
24m
8.0

8.0/10

1 votes • View on IMDb
Documentary
Overview

Susana Barriga’s documentary, the illusion, begins with violence. A long shot reveals a man standing on a street corner, his features indiscernible in the night. He moves out of the camera’s line of vision, but the filmmaker, persistent, moves with him as the jostling of the camera marks her steps. As we learn moments later, the man in the distance is Susana’s father – and this is the clearest image of him we will have. Suddenly, an angry British man demands that Susana cease filming. Susana protests in heavily accented English, “He is my father!” Glimpses of a man’s torso are followed by blurred images as the camera spins rapidly over surfaces. The image cuts to black. A new male voice asks in carefully spaced out words if Susana would like him to call the police. When she doesn’t respond immediately, he speaks louder, as though volume would compensate for the language difference. She gives her name; she refuses the offer of an ambulance.

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Status: Released

Language: ES

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Production Information

Production Companies
EICTV Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV)
Production Countries
Cuba
Spoken Languages
Spanish

Keywords

woman director short film

Quick Facts

Release Date February 6, 2009
Status Released
Language ES
IMDb ID tt1402496

Cast

Key Crew

Susana Barriga
Writer
Susana Barriga
Director
Fabio Meira
Writer
André Leão
Executive Producer
Lloyd Peters
Executive Producer