Séparation de la critique - A Trip with Raya Marti

CPH:DOX's Important Information for the Citizens of Society brings you an interview with the young, Filipino star auteur Raya Martin, who always seems to be one step ahead of everyone else. Michael Guarneri's film gives the floor to Martin in an interimistic 20-minute conversation that applies Martin's own invention of “autohysteria” to the interview situation, with a split screen that critically comments on itself with puns and doodles. Martin talks about his own films, about other films (The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, J.J. Abrams), about the director's role as an archivist as opposed to a historian, and about turning (film) history against itself. And among many other things, Guarneri's Separation of the Critic - A Trip with Raya Martin is a work in its own right, which gives an affectionate nod to both Andy Warhol and Guy Debord, and which above all testifies the renaissance of cinephilia in an enthusiastic “2.0” version, where the canon of film history undergoes a radical revision. And it is both informative and incredibly funny.