The single-shot short is a tricky cinematic feat to nail. It shouldn’t operate as a gimmick, but rather as another tool in opening up the story you’re telling on screen. That’s what works in Roxy Rezvany’s short romantic comedy drama Photo Booth, the story of two immigrants in 70s London who sit down to take some photos. The locked-off, 16:9 frame allows Rezvany’s characters to unfold in front of us. They laugh, they bicker, they become whole. Rezvany’s film makes use of the way in which the single-shot format captures everything because that is precisely the point, we are being shown these people in all of their flaws and their strengths. It’s a gripping, empathetic film that Dn is delighted to share below alongside a conversation with Rezvany, where she breaks down the process of showing these characters through this lens, the production...
- 11/4/2022
- by James Maitre
- Directors Notes
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