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1917 – Europe’s Optical Illusion

IFFR 2017

In 1920s and 1930s Milan, Piero Portaluppi became a successful architect, as well as an enthusiastic filmmaker. His collection of amateur films not only illustrates his career but also gives an impression of a society increasingly under the spell of Mussolini.

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Images on celluloid eventually deteriorate. In fact, a loss of colour is already noticeable in this poetic collage of recycled, predominantly magenta fragments.

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Essayist Georg Wasner used fragments from three films to breathe new life into a text from 1909. This was the year that Norman Angell published his manifesto <em>Europe’s Optical Illusion</em>, in which he warns of violent reactions to globalisation, which even then was in the air.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

1917 – Europe’s Optical Illusion

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