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Accelerando

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Documentary

Overview

A cinematic essay about the analytical power of utopias as depicted in early documentary films and political pamphlets, centering on excerpts of ""Fabrik Poldihütte"" (1916), a fragment of an early Austrian sponsored film about Karl Wittgenstein's steel factory, the British documentary and propaganda film ""The Battle of the Somme"" (1916), the 'reactionary modernist' nazi propaganda film ""Metall des Himmels"" (1935, Walter Ruttmann), and the text ""Europe’s Optical Illusion"" (1909) – British pacifist Norman Angell's pamphlet about the 'Great Illusion' that war and military action can help maintain the status of countries in the 'economically civilized' world.

Details

Status: Released
Release date: October 24, 2016
Original language: English
Countries: Austria
Cast: Stephen Zepke
Director: Georg Wasner
Writer: Georg Wasner
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt6581596