The Blair Witch Project (1998)
Country: US
Technical: col/bw 81m 1.33:1
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard
Synopsis:
Three film students set off into the Maryland woods to shoot a documentary about a witch and don't return. A year later their footage is found.
Review:
Carrying with it the uncanny feeling of rooting through a dead man's things, the film also thrives on the impression, assiduously evoked, that we are witnessing real events as they happen. The paradox is that reality is mediated first by the decision of what to shoot, hence the suspense generated when the camera has been off togther with the necessary narrative expedient of having imperilled characters blunder about with viewfinders raised; it is then mediated by the editors (unidentified), who create multiple viewpoints to involve or unsettle while also excising hours of 'dead' footage. As an interesting footnote the actors were actually placed in gruellingly similar circumstances to their characters, directed by written messages of what to film on each day, and spooked without warning by their would-be directors.
Country: US
Technical: col/bw 81m 1.33:1
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard
Synopsis:
Three film students set off into the Maryland woods to shoot a documentary about a witch and don't return. A year later their footage is found.
Review:
Carrying with it the uncanny feeling of rooting through a dead man's things, the film also thrives on the impression, assiduously evoked, that we are witnessing real events as they happen. The paradox is that reality is mediated first by the decision of what to shoot, hence the suspense generated when the camera has been off togther with the necessary narrative expedient of having imperilled characters blunder about with viewfinders raised; it is then mediated by the editors (unidentified), who create multiple viewpoints to involve or unsettle while also excising hours of 'dead' footage. As an interesting footnote the actors were actually placed in gruellingly similar circumstances to their characters, directed by written messages of what to film on each day, and spooked without warning by their would-be directors.
Country: US
Technical: col/bw 81m 1.33:1
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Cast: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard
Synopsis:
Three film students set off into the Maryland woods to shoot a documentary about a witch and don't return. A year later their footage is found.
Review:
Carrying with it the uncanny feeling of rooting through a dead man's things, the film also thrives on the impression, assiduously evoked, that we are witnessing real events as they happen. The paradox is that reality is mediated first by the decision of what to shoot, hence the suspense generated when the camera has been off togther with the necessary narrative expedient of having imperilled characters blunder about with viewfinders raised; it is then mediated by the editors (unidentified), who create multiple viewpoints to involve or unsettle while also excising hours of 'dead' footage. As an interesting footnote the actors were actually placed in gruellingly similar circumstances to their characters, directed by written messages of what to film on each day, and spooked without warning by their would-be directors.