Canale Grande

A young woman refuses to watch television and decides to create her own program. The changeable and unpredictable structured underground film sees itself as a protest against a standardization of the world of images, as a call for radical subjectivity. Insightful in its satirical intention, but not always successful in its claim to a truly independent visual fantasy. (F.P.)

Canale Grande is one of the secret masterpieces of Austrian cinema, a prime example of subversive cinematography. In this low-budget work, the protagonist (played by director Pezold herself) is fed up with conventional television and invents her own, highly personal form of "close-up" viewing. While Pezold's signature is thoroughly contemporary in its freshness, the atmospheric cityscapes have a touching time capsule quality. (Diagonale Catalog 21)

 

Orig. Title
Canale Grande
Year
1983
Countries
Austria, Germany
Duration
88 min
Category
feature fiction, Experimental, performance, feature fiction
Orig. Language
German, German
Subtitles
English
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Credits
Director
Friederike Pezold (Pezoldo)
Script
Friederike Pezold (Pezoldo)
Cinematography
Elfi Mikesch, Wolfgang Pilgrim, Fritz Ölberg
Production
Friederike Pezold (Pezoldo)
Actor/Actress
Ebba Jahn, Hildegard Westbeld, Elfi Mikesch, Friederike Pezold (Pezoldo)
Available Formats
DCP 2K flat (Distribution Copy)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
stereo
Frame Rate
25 fps
Color Format
colour