Checkpoint (2003 film)
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Checkpoint | |
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Directed by | Yoav Shamir |
Produced by | Amit Breuer Edna Kowarsky Elinor Kowarsky |
Cinematography | Yoav Shamir |
Edited by | Era Lapid |
Release dates |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
Country | Israel |
Languages | Hebrew, Arabic, English |
Checkpoint (original title: Machssomim) is a 2003
The film was produced with the support of The New Israeli Foundation for Cinema and Television.[3]
Synopsis
Checkpoint is shot in cinéma vérité style with no narration and very little context. Shamir himself is absent from the film except for one scene in which a border guard asks him to try to make him "look good," and Shamir asks how he should do that.
The camera films people trying to cross at various checkpoints. At some, such as the high-tech fortress like that at the
.Significance
Checkpoint is a part of the independent digital documentary movement in the early 2000s, thanks to the introduction of relatively inexpensive digital tape-based video cameras and the sudden affordability of powerful desktop video editing systems.[4]
This in-the-trenches filmmaking lent itself to direct cinema or cinéma vérité, a definition that spans from reality TV to the Pennebaker films of the 1960s. Even the astoundingly popular documentaries in the 2000s such as
Awards
The film received five festival awards, including Best Feature Documentary at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Best International Documentary at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the Golden Gate Award for Documentary Feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival.[7]
References
- ^ "* OFFOFFOFF film review CHECKPOINT (Machssomim) Israeli documentary movie by Yoav Shamir". Offoffoff.com. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ^ Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (2009-11-03). "HASHMATSA / DEFAMATION (2009): Interview With Yoav Shamir | Twitch". Twitchfilm.net. Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2012-12-01.
- ^ Yoav Shamir, Checkpoint, 2003; end credits
- ^ Baker, Maxin, Documenting In the Digital Age, 2006, Oxford, Focal Press
- ^ Falzone, Paul, "Documentary For Change" Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 2008
- ^ Documentary film Quarterly, Issue 52, 2004 14-15, "Purposeful Film Making"
- ^ [1] Archived January 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
Bibliography
Zanger, Anat. "Blind Space: Roadblock Movies in the Contemporary Film."
External links
- Checkpoint at IMDb