Porterville
A chance encounter in a sex shop leads to a multi year project raising questions over the fraught nature of documentary filmmaking. On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam Koopman…
Porterville
A chance encounter in a sex shop leads to a multi year project raising questions over the fraught nature of documentary filmmaking. On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam Koopman finds himself in a Rotterdam-based sex shop. Here he meets Marty who works there, and this chance encounter turns into a cinematic project between the two. When Sam turns the camera towards this new stranger, the two end up embarking on a year-long journey to create a film together. Their shared process of self-discovery turns this playful desktop film into a profound meditation on the nature of non-fiction film. —Hugo Emmerzael
Porterville
Drama,Western
Film Details
A chance encounter in a sex shop leads to a multi year project raising questions over the fraught nature of documentary filmmaking. On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam Koopman finds himself in a Rotterdam-based sex shop. Here he meets Marty who works there, and this chance encounter turns into a cinematic project between the two.
When Sam turns the camera towards this new stranger, the two end up embarking on a year-long journey to create a film together. Their shared process of self-discovery turns this playful desktop film into a profound meditation on the nature of non-fiction film. —Hugo Emmerzael.