Wyborny’s latest flicker film concentrates on factories, industrial wastelands, waterways, cityscapes, and the bits in between, and has an uncanny emotional resonance. It is “serene, in the manner of ants”—to quote the title of the second section—but it is also elegiac and melancholy. Like two other old cranks (Godard and Straub), the director stays true to ideas about filmic composition gestated over many years and thereby provides a glimpse of a utopian cinema.
October 1, 2010
Released
Studien zum Untergang des Abendlands
1h 20min
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No Language
Part of
Includes: At the Edge of Darkness (Song of the Earth Part 1), Another World (Song of the Earth Part 2), Abandoned; Lost; Lonely, Cold (Song of the Earth Part 3), From the Age of Recklessness (Song of the Earth Part 4), Grace, Things (Song of the Earth Part 5), Studies for the Decay of the West