I Am Josh Polonski's Brother

I Am Josh Polonski's Brother

Infobox Film
name = I Am Josh Polonski's Brother


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caption = "I Am Josh Polonski's Brother" poster
director = Raphael Nadjari
producer = Caroline Bonmarchand
Tom Donahue
Francesca Feder
Anne Feinsilber
Geoffroy Grison
writer = Raphaël Nadjari
narrator =
starring = Richard Edson
Jeff Ware
Meg Hartig
Arnold Barkus
Ivan Martin
music = Vincent Segal
Jean-Pierre Sluys
cinematography = Laurent Brunet
editing = Tom Donahue
distributor = MK2 Diffusion
released = Start date|2001|6|6
runtime = 87 min.
country = flag|France
flag|USA
language = English
budget =
gross =
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imdb_id = 0278493

"I Am Josh Polonski's Brother" (2001) is Raphael Nadjari's second feature film. It was shot in New York City in 1999 and early 2000, in S8mm 200 ASA. The film was selected in the Berlin Film Festival at the Forum.

Awards and Nominations

Berlin Film Festival (2001) - Forum of Young Cinema

Plot

The Polonski brothers, Abe, Ben and Josh, work together in their family's fabric store on the lower east side of Manhattan. Like any other Jewish family they go to their mother's to spend the Sabbath together. But one day, Josh is shot to death in the middle of the street in front of Abe's eyes.. For Ben the tragic situation has an explanation - the nightlife of Josh - but Abe wants to understand what happened. Following the path of his brother, he walks in the same foosteps, finding more and more of himself.

Format & Release

Shot in 15 days, in Super-8 format and improvised with no script, I Am Josh Polonski's Brother premiered at the Forum of Young Cinema in the Berlin Film Festival. The film was then released in France by distributor MK2 and more than 50,000 people came to see it in theaters even though it was shot in S8. Kodak supported the film to prove that it was doable to approach a true narrative feature in such a format in the midst of the digital age. Nadjari not only proved it but demonstrated that the digital age, instead of reducing media to its own format, is in fact a great system of expanding the possibilities of most film and video formats.

Nadjari's idea is that the digital age is an archiving system that enables any other format to fit, not technically, but more to integrate with the story we want to tell. It is thus possible to use almost any recording device and have it fit to a narrative integration. Here the film was about family and nostalgia for film of the 70's, Super-8 film was the best format to fuse the format with its content.

Trivia

The film marked the second time Raphael Nadjari worked with actors Richard Edson and Jeff Ware.

The film was shot in super 8mm, a nearly forgotten format, which gave the film a distinctive look and feel which attracted audiences & critics alike.

External links

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