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Film ist. 1-6 + 7-12

Presented by International House Philadelphia at The Ibrahim Theater at International House

October 13, 2010

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Film ist. 1-6, dir. Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 1998, 35mm, 60 mins, b/w. "Film ist. consists almost exclusively of sequences from existing scientific films seen in the classroom, but rarely in the cinema. These films are about the acrobatic flights of pigeons, the intelligence testing of apes; about 'reversed worlds' and stereoscopic vision; hurricanes and impact waves in the air; how glass breaks, children walk and how a Mercedes crashes into a stone wall in slow motion. Pictures which, from their origins, have nothing to do with each other, which don't 'belong together', are compared, tied together, fused with each other. Film ist is a poetic film in itself."--Alexander Horwath. Followed by: Film ist. (7-12), dir. Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 2002, 35mm, 93 mins, b/w. "According to director Gustav Deutsch, 'film is so many things that a catalog of what it can be must necessarily remain open.' Deutsch’s found footage is peopled with recycled figures and the undead--early cinema silently reproduces the living beings who once dared subject themselves to its gaze; it depicts what once seemed alive as a mere, though faded, reflection of light. An unbounded love of cinema’s tangible material is obvious in Deutsch’s compilation."--Stefan Grissemann