Film
The Filmmaker’s House
- Director
- Marc Isaacs
- Certificate
- 12A
- Running Time
- 75 mins
Told that if his next project is to have any chance of getting funded it will need to be about crime, sex or celebrities, disillusioned, award-winning documentary filmmaker Marc Isaacs invites a bunch of strangers into his home to become the stars of his new film: the two English builders who Isaacs has employed to replace his fence; the Pakistani neighbour, who he now temporarily shares a garden with; a homeless Slovakian man, who invites himself in and tests everyone’s ideas of the expectations and boundaries between host and guests in the process; and the filmmaker’s Colombian cleaner, who is charmed by all who visit. The resultant ‘meta documentary’ poses all kinds of questions about the nature of filmmaking itself.
“The Filmmaker’s House was born out of a growing frustration with the state of the documentary film industry and a personal determination to retain independence of mind in my filmmaking, says Isaacs. “What has been lost, in my view, is a willingness on the part of funders to back films with a distinct signature – films that take formal and thematic risks.”
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