THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME
95 min, Documentary, Canada, 2024Directed byMitchell Stafiej
Produced byType One Films
LanguagesEnglish, Spanish
Film details
Synopsis
A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience, mixed in Dolby Atmos.
Crew
Writer : Mitchell Stafiej
Cinematographer : Simran Dewan
Editor : Daniel Dietzel
Sound Designer : Mitchell Stafiej
Music : Martín Rodriguez
Production : Mitchell Stafiej
Direction
Mitchell Stafiej
Mitchell Stafiej is a disabled filmmaker and sound designer who lives and works in Montreal, Quebec. He has lived with Type 1 Diabetes since he was 16 years old. His films explore the potential and the political power of juxtaposition and the cut; language-less demonstrations of social change. He embraces textural images and harsh sound and often shoots films on 16mm and lo-fi technology like HI-8 and cell phones. He is constantly on the search for the ‘anti-image’ and tries to expand the notion of what can be considered cinematic. He received his M.F.A. in Studio Arts from Concordia University in 2018 and currently teaches film production, film studies, and art history at John Abbott College.
Filmography
THESE STREETS WILL NEVER LOOK THE SAME, 95 min, Documentary, 2024
SMOOTH MOTION, 18 min, Fiction, 2024
THE DIABETIC, 93 min, Fiction, 2022
FOWARDS, BACKWARD, 5 min, Experimental, 2020
THE FENESTRATION OF SUBURBIA, 18 min, Documentary, 2019
A, 86 min, Fiction, 2017
THE DEVIL’S TRAP, 94 min, Documentary, 2017
FOUND, 69 min, Experimental, 2014