Director: Martin Arnold
Year: 1989-1998
Country: Austria
Language(s): German
Length: 49 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Released by Index DVD in cooperation with Re:Voir
Synopsis
"The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. And it is exactly that that is most interesting to consider."
Martin Arnold
"I work with feature-film scenes, with popular cinema, so for my work the image
itself is also very important: it doesn't only show certain places, actors, and actions; it
also shows the dreams, hopes, and taboos of the epoch and society that created it."
Martin Arnold
"Piece Touchee is more than a matter of forms. The reflections and distortions and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time."
Alexander Horwath
"The message which lies deep under the surface of the family idyll, suppressed or
lost, is exposed - that message is war."
Stefan Grissemann on Passage A l'Acte
"My revenge on film history."
Martin Arnold
Film Listing
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Piece Touchee (1989, 16 mins)
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Passage A l'Acte (1993, 12 mins)
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Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998, 15 mins)
Special Features
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Donīt - Der Oesterreichfilm (1996, 3:41 mins)
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Trailer - Jesus Walking On Screen (1993, 1:11 mins)
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Trailer - Kunstraum Remise (1994, 1:06 mins)
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Trailer - Psycho / Viennale Spot (1997, 48 secs)
- A 16-page essay by Akira Lippit, "Cinemnesis, Martin Arnold's Memory Machine"
