Name: Welt Spiegel Kino
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-01-28
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Emperor Franz Josef

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 ...

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