Accelerando

  • 40'
  • Austria
  • 2016

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 Europe’s Optical Illusion, in which he warns of violent reactions to globalisation, which even then was in the air. Angell developed his ideas in the book The Great Illusion (1913), about the delusion that war can bolster the status of countries in an ‘economically civilised’ world. This work later formed the basis for Jean Renoir’s classic La Grande Illusion (1937). The term ‘accelerando’ is borrowed from science-fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. The best-known footage used by Wasner is from The Battle of the Somme (Geoffrey Malins & John McDowell, 1916), released in 18 countries at the time and perhaps the most-watched of all documentaries on World War I. In addition, he uses footage from the German propaganda films Fabrik Poldihütte (1916) and Metall des Himmels (1935).

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  • 40'
  • Austria
  • 2016
Director
Georg Wasner
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
Austria
Year
2016
Festival Edition
IFFR 2017
Length
40'
Medium
DCP
Language
English
Producer
Georg Wasner
Sales
sixpackfilm
Screenplay
Georg Wasner
Editor
Georg Wasner
Website
http://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/2357

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Director
Georg Wasner
Premiere
International premiere
Country of production
Austria
Year
2016
Festival Edition
IFFR 2017
Length
40'
Medium
DCP
Language
English
Producer
Georg Wasner
Sales
sixpackfilm
Screenplay
Georg Wasner
Editor
Georg Wasner
Website
http://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/show/2357