Offscreen (2006)

Directed by

Christoffer Boe

Genre

drama film, horror film, romance film, thriller film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

NC-17

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man documents his own life over a year, aiming to become invisible. When he is recorded committing suicide, the film shifts to resemble a documentary. It also reflects on homelessness and the struggle to acknowledge outsiders.

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What happens

Offscreen is a 2006 Danish film directed by Christoffer Boe, who also wrote the screenplay together with Knud Romer Jørgensen. With an odd mixture of fiction and reality, it tells the peculiar story of a man who films himself for a whole year in a quest for invisibility. When he is inevitably caught on camera, however, he takes his own life, causing the movie to take on the fictional aspect of a documentary. When combined with the plight of the homeless, the film can also be a meditation on the difficulties of facing the stranger. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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