The World (Outside)
( Le Monde (Extérieur) )

Benny Shaffer
2013 - 14 min - Couleur - États-Unis

Shot in a theme park in southwest China where little people work as performers in a fantastical variety show, the documentary captures the rhythms of everyday life as the mundane and the surreal overlap in the spaces of work and home. As a meditation on performance, the body, and imaginings of life elsewhere, "The World (Outside)" explores the relationship between a controversial institution of entertainment and its melancholy backstage.

Artiste | Loisirs | Spectacle | Chine


Author-Director : Benny Shaffer
Photography : Cheng Peng
Sound : Benny Shaffer
Editing : Benny Shaffer
Delegate Producer : Sensory Ethnography Lab

Distribution


Distributor : Benny Shaffer

Distinctions

2014 - Festival International Jean Rouch, Paris (France) : Compétition Internationale