Sweep by Spencer Gillis

I denne study guide kan du få hjælp til at analysere kortfilmen "Sweep" af Spencer Gillis. Udover analysehjælp kan du finde et summary af filmen, samt inspiration til at diskutere et af dens centrale temaer.

Eksamensspørgsmål

Denne kortfilm har været brugt til skriftlig eksamen i skriftlig engelsk på HF B den 4. december 2017. Opgaveformuleringen var følgende:

1. Write a summary of “Sweep” in about 150 words.

2. Write a short analytical essay (at least 300 words) about “Sweep”. You must focus on the main character James.

Include the following analytical terms in your essay: setting, music, conflict, main theme

3. Taking your starting point in the short film, discuss to which extent you should trust people you have just met.

Use at least two phrases from the next ones: though, secondly, however, alternatively, firstly, since, yet, whereas

Præsentation af kortfilmen

Titel: “Sweep” (2015)
Instruktør: Spencer Gillis
Genre: Kortfilm

Spencer Gillis (f. 1978) er en amerikansk filminstruktør, som har produceret flere kortfilm og dokumentarer. Han startede sin karriere som kameramand, men i 2013 var han instruktør på sin først kortfilm, "GUN".

"Sweep" blev vist på flere filmfestivaler og vandt Viola M. Marshall Audience Award ved Rhode Island International Film Festival i 2015.

Du kan se kortfilmen her.

Summary af kortfilmen

James is a white man who is taking a van full of bags and branches to a recycling center. While driving his van, he has a conversation with an employer who did not pay him for his working hours and he smokes a marijuana cigarette.

At the recycling center, he is approached by Jean and Benoit, two French-speaking black immigrants. Jean asks to borrow James’s broom. When James goes to their van to get his broom back, Jean wants to pay him but James refuses. Jean asks to share some of James’s marijuana in exchange for some juice and James reluctantly agrees.

As the men smoke, they talk about their children and bond. The three men then go running through the recycling center, which Benoit thinks looks like a canyon.

When they return to their cars, a policeman questions Jean and Benoit about wandering through the landfill and smoking marijuana. James pretends not to know them and drives away, but not before Jean making a comment about James taking his broom back.

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Sweep by Spencer Gillis

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