Intended to show the industrial city embedded in the surrounding landscape and German tradition, architecture and culture..
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Is it worth your time? If you want a plot, look elsewhere. If you want to see how cinema can turn a smokestack into a piece of abstract art, you’ll dig this. People who need dialogue or, you know, characters will probably check their watches five minutes in. It’s a mood piece, not a story. The rhythm of the machine Th...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Walter Ruttmann
Claude Friese-Greene
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"Is it worth your time? If you want a plot, look elsewhere. If you want to see how cinema can turn a smokestack into a piece of abstract art, you’ll dig this. People who need dialogue or, you know, characters will probably check their watches five minutes in. It’s a mood piece, not a story. The rhythm of the machine There’s this moment where the camera just locks onto a bridge, and the way the shadows cut across the steel is wildly satisfying. Ruttmann doesn't care about the people living there ..."
