Passages

Overview

Lisl Ponger creates an imaginary map of the twentieth century on which the stories of emigration are engraved like well-worn tracks of occidental memory. The pictures, made by observant tourists, are revealed, in their tensile relationship to the soundtrack, as a post-colonial journey. A journey through exactly those countries which long ago have been shrunk together in space and time. Finally the wonderful neon signs of the “Hotel Edison” and “Radio City” remind one of the origins of this form of appropriation of the world, of the time of great expeditions, of Benjamin‘s shop-windows and passages, and of the time when technical apparatus and means of transportation fundamentally altered the perceptions of modern man.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 21, 1996

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

Austria

Cast

Ornella Goria,Le Dinhan,Adi Sitzmann

Director

Lisl Ponger

Writer

Lisl Ponger

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0158072