Insightfully updated version of a short story by poet Fernando Pessoa from 1922. The setting is a talk show immediately after the credit crunch. The guest a banker without remorse. Eloquently he entraps us and takes us through the incontrovertible logic of high finance.
Also in this combined programme
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Populus tremula
The process from tree to match proves to be the perfect metaphor for the route from state to individual capitalist. Recorded on beautiful 16mm. -
In ictu oculi
A peaceful landscape, with a perfectly laid table covered in delicious food and drink. The ideal occasion for a fabulous meal… -
Babel
A boy, a girl, a major city. In this super-aesthetic fairytale, fast-paced Shanghai appears to be a fickle goddess of fortune. -
Wasteland
Echoes of Monty Python resound in this animation on the food industry. Where does our food come from? We’d rather not know! -
Crises of Capitalism
A provocative jewel of radical thought from Professor David Harvey, playfully and astutely animated via the supercharged visual synthesis of Andrew Pa
Film details
- Country of production
- Germany
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 29'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
