ABSTRACT
The film Father and Sons by the Beijing-based director Wang Bing records the life of a Chinese migrant worker, Cai, and his two teenage sons in the outskirts of Fuming. The film consists almost entirely of a handful of fixed long shots filmed in a four square meter room where the three men live together. The fact that the film is made from a particular and biased perspective is a requirement for the documentary to work and to educate. The experimental film The Human Surge, directed by the Argentine director Eduardo Williams, is structured around three separate geographical segments: Buenos Aires, Maputo, and Bohol. The Human Surge shows not only the omnipresence of digital screen media, but reflects this ubiquity also through the aesthetics of the film. The film seems to be all about a gaze that clings itself to the will to be connected and to be in contact with others.
