A Season of Footage and Films Part 4. The Parallel Street
Jan. 2, 2011 - Jan. 3, 2011
Ferdinand Khittl, 1961
86 minutes.
Sunday January 2,
6:30 pm.
CAMP Roof
" ...sometimes
extraordinarily hilarious, sometimes hardly able to get away from its
deliberately starched setting. A group of young men is trying to analyse
an enormous number of fragmentary film documents (shot by Khittl and
his cameraman Ronald Martini during two extensive travels around the
world in 1959 and 1960). The 308 “documents” – films about water and
erosion, Brasilia, a volcano, rice in Asia or a meanwhile legendary
Rosstäuscher (horse cheater) – are screened one after the after and
intermitted by comments of the team members (who, on their part, are
being commented by a supervisor). “In a Kafkaesque room five
Ionescoesque people find themselves in a Sartreesque situation, trying
to solve a Camuesque problem”, as back then pre-eminent critic Helmut
Färber ironically described this setting."
from a review of the 44th Viennale by Martina Lunzer and Barbara Wurm, Senses of Cinema, October 2006.
