Short film

How to Invent Reality
1996 · 31 min
A quiet, cerebral essay that blurs the line between observation and staging, asking you to watch the filmmaker watch.
- Directed by
- Jon Bang Carlsen
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jon Bang Carlsen, Marie Daly, Will Daly
- Overview
- Jon Bang Carlsen's essay about his way of approaching reality with a camera. Following the filming of "It's Now or Never", the story of an Irish bachelor's quest for love, Jon Bang Carlsen elaborates on how he manipulates reality in order to get to the core of it. " Staged documentary " he calls his method.
- How it feels
- Measured and demanding.
- About
- Art, identity, love, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Jon Bang Carlsen
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Jon Bang Carlsen, Marie Daly, Will Daly
