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World Mirror Cinema
In Gustav Deutsch's most recent found footage work the masses "absorb" (Walter Benjamin), the artwork. Three historical camera pans across the streets and squares of Vienna, Surabaya, and Porto provide a starting point for reflection on the relationship of everyday stories and cinematic machinery.
| Release : | 2005 |
| Rating : | 7.7 |
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| Crew : | Director, Executive Producer, |
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| Genre : | Documentary |
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Sorry, this movie sucks
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The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
Beautiful found-footage-composition by Viennese filmmaker Gustav Deutsch, who uses the movie-screen as a hypertext, diving into the tableaux of early cinema, linking images to other associated imagery. In it's course this work adds up to a reflection about everyday life and every day dreams (as staged in front of the static camera) at the turn of the century. By the way: Although the film shows up in the credits with a length of 30 min, this is not quite correct: "Welt Spiegel Kino" ("World Mirror Cinema") consists of three episodes, set in three different locations (one in Vienna/Austria, one in Porto/Portugal, one in Indonesia), and each of these episodes is 30 min long. The full film has a duration of 90 min. Anyhow - Gustav Deutsch sees his found footage-work as a work in progress, so there might well be an episode 4.- 6. sometime ...
