HOW I FILMED THE WAR (Yuval Sagiv, Canada). 75 minutes.
Sunday (May 2), 7:15 pm, Innis Town Hall May 8, 9:15 pm, Innis Town Hall. Rating: NNNNN
York University graduate student Yuval Sagiv’s deconstruction of the 1916 British war document The Battle Of The Somme – shot by cameraman Geoffrey H. Malins, whose memoir provides both the title of Sagiv’s film and most of its onscreen text – is rigorously constructed and formally thrilling.
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Audiences hoping for a rousing examination of wartime filmmaking will probably be disappointed by the unapologetically detached and cerebral approach, but those willing to submit to Sagiv’s method will find How I Filmed The War utterly compelling.
