Safety Film

In this early found footage film (made long before this type of film-making was "in" in Austria) Scheugl proves how adventuresome a cinema may be which dares to take itself seriously. Once again, Hans Scheugl has been able to keep the balance between two realities: the "primary reality," which in this case, is material from a Hollywood Western that Scheugl has adopted, and without simply "abstracting" from it or destroying, or negating it or anything like that, has succeeded in maintaining the plot suspense of the original material´s individual scenes so that it remains powerful and yet is complimented...

Orig. Title
Safety Film
Year
1968
Country
Austria
Duration
4 min
Director
Hans Scheugl
Category
Avantgarde/Arts
Orig. Language
No Dialogue
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