Point and Shoot

An essential, fascinating critique -- and product -- of our ‘look at me’ culture.
-- Joe McGovern, Entertainment Weekly

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Point and Shoot

POINT AND SHOOT follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old with obsessive compulsive disorder, who left home in Baltimore in 2006 and set off on a self-described “crash course in manhood.” He bought a motorcycle and a video camera and began a three-year, 35,000-mile motorcycle trip through Northern Africa and the Middle East. While traveling, he struck up an unlikely friendship with a Libyan hippie, and when revolution broke out in Libya, Matt joined his friend in the fight against dictator Muammar Gaddafi. With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, Matt fought in -- and filmed -- the war until he was captured by Gaddafi forces and held in solitary confinement for six months. Two-time Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker Marshall Curry tells this harrowing and sometimes humorous story of a young man’s struggle for political revolution and personal transformation.

Grade: A "The tale told in Point and Shoot is a virtual swashbuckler... a subtle, but nonetheless eloquent critique not just of one man's compulsions, but a culture's." -John Anderson, Indiewire

"Potent... An eye-opening tale... allowing viewers access not only to the mind of a revolutionary but of a revolution." -Steven Zeitchik, Los Angeles Times
Not Rated
Genre
Documentary
Runtime
83
Language
English
Director
Marshall Curry
FEATURED REVIEW
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter

The thin line separating heroism from narcissism runs like a taut tripwire through Point and Shoot, Marshall Curry's riveting study of self-styled adventurer and rebel freedom fighter Matthew VanDyke. A sheltered Baltimore guy with few friends, VanDyke gave himself "a crash course in manhood" that ...

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