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A Point of View

1989 16 mm B & W 8 1/2 min

Producer/writer/director/camera operator Shirley Grace
Subject Bruno Lawrence
Photographer Shirley Grace

Funded by Creative New Zealand Film & Video Fund

The story describes a photographic session between a photographer and her subject. The action is seen from the still camera’s point of view - a camera that has the ability to see, not just what the photographer chooses, but all the time.

Working as a photographer I deal with single images yet I am continually aware of the moment that take place on either side of the ones recorded. It seemed inevitable that sooner or later I would want to get together a collection of moving sequences… If all drama need a central question then A Point of View’s would be “Does the camera lie?” The answer I’ve decided is: “Yes, all the time - but it doesn’t have to!”
-  Shirley Grace

see also
Erin's Exiled Daughters
Rangitoto