di Krzysztof Kieslowski (Pol, 1979, 117') v.o. sott.it. dom 6 h 18,20 – 20,20
On a higher level, ‘Camera Buff' has a universal message. It tells of the birth of an artist, of the vocation he discovers in himself. The subject is Filip Mosz, a young artist just beginning to ‘present his own vision of the world.' ‘Camera Buff' is a record of his victories and failures, and also of the traps he falls into. The hero starts out with a private and humble aim. He buys a camera to film his little daughter.Urged by his boss to make his first film, he tastes the freedom of the film-maker. In the next stage, he relishes the apparently limitless capabilities of the camera. But then he also becomes familiar with the darker and disturbing side of ‘presenting the world as it is.' After his uncompromising documentary is shown on television, his workmate is sacked. Filip realizes that he is not able to carry the responsibility for his own films.
