"It’s a black-and-white record of European cities in the dark (2-5am), from Basle to Belfast. Quiet, and meditative, what emerges most strongly is an eerie sense of city landscapes as deserted film sets, in which the desolate architecture overwhelms any sense of reality. The only reassurance that we are not in some endless machine-Metropolis is the shadow of daytime activity: a...
A contemplation on night travelling in various weather conditions through seemingly endless landscapes in Europe, only briefly disrupted by shreds of conversation in a foreign language.
These images and sounds are from Berlin, Tokyo and Hong Kong. They blend together with light- and shadow-studies on the walls of an appartment in Berlin. They are mixed, muddled, confused and blinded by the tunes of westernized Chinese music.
The camera's gaze does not become obsessive and it takes nothing directly in the eye. It sweeps far, follows the movement of the S-Bahn, ...
Fast cut scenes of people shooting each other, eating spaghetti, walking in a forest etc. Similar images as in AESCHENPLATZPOLIZIST. Lovely soundtrack made of equally cut up excerpts of songs by Jacques Dutronc und Nancy Sinatras-I Can't Grow Peaches On A Cherry Tree.
A lively satire about niggling, bureaucratic practices imposed by the Confederation on filmmakers and their own attempts to make commercial movies.
A Radio commentator in Zürich, Switzerland, breaks the bonds of his dreary existence for one night in the company of a young woman only to realise at daybreak that he lacks the courage to go through with it.
Directed by
Alejandro Agresti
Gábor Altorjay
José Luis Guerín
Clemens Klopfenstein
Tato Kotetshvili
William Mbaye Ousmane
Eagle Pennell
Dick Rijneke
Mrinal Sen
Béla Tarr
Mildred Van Leeuwaarden
Krzysztof Kieslowski (segment "Siedem dni w tygodniu")
Carlos Reichenbach (segment "Desordem em Progresso")
