IN CAMERA
Naqqash Khalid
Résumé/ Summary
Aden, la vingtaine, n’a qu’une ambition dans la vie : devenir acteur. Il passe le plus clair de son temps à tourner des vidéos et à postuler pour des rôles qu’il n’obtient jamais. Après une série d’auditions catastrophiques et infructueuses, il a une idée radicale : il se chargera de trouver le rôle qu’il veut jouer. In Camera examine à la fois l’éthique douteuse du monde de la publicité et le concept de l’identité plurielle avec un ton critique, sans résister à la tentation de surprendre quelque peu le spectateur.
20-something Aden’s only ambition in life is to become an actor. Most of his time is spent making videos as he applies for roles he’ll never get. After a string of dreadful and unsuccessful auditions, he comes up with a radical move: he will take full agency for finding the role that he wants to play. In Camera examines both the questionable commercial work ethic and the multilayered concept of identity with a critical tone, without resisting the temptation to tease the viewer a little.
Naqqash Khalid is a writer/director from Manchester. He has directed several short films including, “Stock” which was commissioned for television and premiered in 2019 as part of Sky’s Post-Brexits series, “Art50”. His previous short films have been supported by Sky, BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Naqqash is currently adapting Boris Vian’s The Empire Builders as a four-part limited series.
