Movie Details
Original Language:Dutch
Episode 1
DirectorRenzo Martens
WriterRenzo Martens
Plot
Episode 1 is the registration of Renzo Martens activities in Chechnya He penetrates the warzone alone illegal and carrying a Hi8 camera and takes on the role of the single most important actor in war that of the ubiquitous yet forever undefined television viewer for whose attention the battles are being fought Amidst ruins and bombings he does not ask refugees UN employees and rebels how they feel Those stories are well known and serve no purpose for those who tell them Instead he asks them how they think he feels The film forms a metaphor for an economy of images roles and emotions At the same time there Martens stands alone with his camera recording The film is not about some external phenomenon but about the terms and conditions of its own existence
