A father and daughter trapped in a car, cameras staring each other down — who will blink first?
Two people are on the road. Everyday life, business calls, games, a curve of the highway, a swing and again business calls... During this year the father and the daughter have not seen much of each other and they have not been alone for a long time. Two cameras are looking face to face; different fears inhabit one and the same space. There is a question: should they come back or should they continue traveling together?
Direction
Dual-camera setup turns documentary into psychological boxing match.
Editing
52 minutes of accumulated silences speak louder than dialogue.
Director
Denis Shabaev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shabaev's dual-camera conceit inverts typical documentary power dynamics — subject and filmmaker collapse into mutual observation, making viewers complicit voyeurs of a collapsing relationship.
Part of a wave of post-Soviet 'intimate documentary' where filmmakers turn cameras on their own families, often with ethically murky results that challenge Eastern European norms of privacy and filial duty.
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