摘要：With nothing buta 16mm projector and a portable generator, a filmmaker embarks upon a series of impromptu screenings of his most recent film in rural hamlets lacking even the most basic cinematic infrastructure. He is doing so because the residents of these hamlets are both the subjects and the addressees of his film, and he is interested in gauging his success in communicating with them and, in particular, their perception of the fidelity with which he has represented them. At one screening, audience members criticizesome of the techniques the filmmaker has used as inauthentic, criticisms that lead the filmmaker to reinvent his formal practices. At another screening, the audience suggests what should be the subject of the filmmaker's next film. He takes their advice and subsequently makes a film that becomes a milestone in his development of collaborative filmmaking practices while also embroiling its maker in political controversies that make the film and the filmmaker a cause célèbre
