Sobota
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Marie Elisa Scheidt
Germany
2013 | 0:30:00
As a former thug and ruthless pimp, Sobota was well-known in 1960s Vienna. Sent to prison, he wrote an autobiographical novel which, despite its violence, had great impact. Rather than attempting to find presumed motives, this film, lying between fiction and documentary, explores the dark side of humanity through a singular meeting between a young woman and Sobota more than forty years later
Extrait:
http://vimeo.com/46574383
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Snake Dance |
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Manu Riche, Patrick Marnham
Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland
2012 | 1:17:00
Snake Dance, the new film by the Belgian documentary-maker Manu Riche and the English-Irish writer and scenarist Patrick Marnham, is about the genesis of the atomic bomb. The journey leading up to this story was a long one. We plunge into the jungle of the Congo in the footsteps of Leopold II in search of the place where uranium is mined. We cross the ocean to Los Alamos, the base in New Mexico where Robert J. Oppenheimer developed the atom bomb assisted by the best physicists in the world. We follow the bomb to Japan, where it destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
Riche and Marnham introduce a second thread into their film, that of the German art historian and anthropologist Aby Warburg (1866-1929). Warburg was the first to demonstrate the importance of iconography -- a history in images -- in the study of civilisations and cultures. For instance, he studied the religious symbolism of the Pueblo Indians and more specifically the Hopi tribe, who lived very near the place where the Los Alamos camp was built. In 1923, the visionary Warburg wrote: 'What interested me as a cultural historian was that in the midst of a country that had made technological culture into an admirable precision weapon in the hands of intellectual man, an enclave or primitive pagan humanity was able to maintain itself.' Snake Dance is about the choices modern man has to make if he wants to survive. Like Prometheus, he makes fatal decisions that leave him alone in a world of chaos.
Extrait:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVq9sI10S8A
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