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Surveillance Cinema

Camera Buff

1h 53m

Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1979 • Poland

A reflexive meditation on art and documentary and a key film in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s career, CAMERA BUFF follows a factory worker's growing obsession with filmmaking after he captures the birth of his daughter on his new 8 mm camera.

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