The Brits have a flair for the dystopian. Here, the neon-lit decor of the roller-skate disco becomes its most cruel quality—its shine impedes sleep and the jovial music that accompanies it betrays the mood of the teenagers trapped in this bizarro unemployment limbo. The main movement here is circular, but it’s important that the film ends on a freeze-frame—everything comes to an end.
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Bridges, Trains and Ships 2017
Part of a screening done at the Goethe Institut that included:
Harun Farocki & Hartmut Bitomsky, Hammer & Saw [Hammer & Sägen] (1973, 5 minutes)
This rare film is an example of a series of children's films made by Farocki in collaboration with Hartmut Bitomsky. As the title implies, this short double feature showcases the use of hammers and saws from their most rudimentary forms to highly specialized machinery.
Kevin B. Lee, Farocki Presented (2018, 11 minutes)
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