Producer: Dospasos
Distribution: Microfilm
Screenplay: Gregory Cohen
Director: Gregory Cohen
Production: Rodrigo Orellana Br.
Twenty years of Chile in a bathroom. This movie is a fiction that detects, from a security camera, all the cultural, social and family changes in Chile between 1968 and 1988. Hippies, political prisoners, entrepreneurs, teachers pass through this bathroom, in different periods with their own sense of humour, passions and concerns...without imagining that there is an eye which is spying them.
Why a fixed camera?
Because it simulates a "concealed spy" that only sees. This "documentalist objectivity" helps the audience increasing its curiosity, reinforcing the credibility of situations, even though these seem very odd.
Why a bathroom?
Because in this context all the decency, concealed secrets that hardly we manifest come out. It is an excellent metaphor for Chile of today and of yesterday.
Why 1968-1988?
Beacuse 1968 underlines a stage of cultural and political unrest in Chile and in the rest of the world in general. 1988 marks the end of dictatorship, a new kind of life in Chile because of the level of violence and mistrust that was caused. These years are of great dramatic diversity and intensity due to its changes and breakups.
What does this fixed camera want?
The director needs to develop a particular, dramatic intensity and a simple language that is able to give movements and life to the whole representation. The artistic director has to convert this bathroom into a multisensory and multifaceted one, changing its materials and artefacts peculiar of this period and the use of the bathroom itself. The cinematographer has to accept the disguised tone of this camera that detects and legitimates everything: the widespread shadow, the imperfect light of a lightbulb, the exit of an actor from the scene, and so on.
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