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Conference (Notes on Film 05)

Conference (Notes on Film 05)

Norbert Pfaffenbichler | Austria | 2011 | 8' |

| IFFR 2012

This bizarre conference illustrates our tireless fascination with evil. The expressive modulations of the iconic faces provide an increasingly comic tone. The soundtrack throughout is a degraded vocal sample of Chaplin’s nonsense language from The Great Dictator, with constant applause abstracted to static.

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