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Abendland

Abendland

2011
Documentary
1h 30m
A brilliantly evocative film essay about the Western world, specifically its affluence and exclusiveness. Director Geyrhalter explores this theme with striking images, all filmed at night, that are typical of a modern, industrialized, wealthy civilization: a streamlined crematorium, a complicated security surveillance room, a cold and eerily quiet television news studio. (mubi.com)
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Abendland

2011
Documentary
1h 30m
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Rated 18 Nov 2014
84
75th
[surveillance] deportation [surveillance] (premature) infancy [surveillance] food preparation and cleanup [surveillance] public drunkenness [surveillance] hospitalization [surveillance] European Union subcommittee meeting [surveillance] police training [surveillance] television news station [surveillance] weapons manufacturing [surveillance] conference of priests and the Pope at the Vatican [surveillance] telephonic suicide counseling [surveillance] sex [surveillance] antinuclear protesting [sur
Rated 27 Mar 2015
84
81st
Falls into the Baraka/Samsara/Qatsi category sans the meditative, Phillip Glass style score. In fact removing the score completely, leaving the viewer with a fly on the wall look at the imagery displayed. This composition style gives the viewer a sense they are standing in the room, with a locked stare at each shot's subject which is quite evocative. Geyhalter gets to some unique vantage points in his expose of maintaining the EU mechanism.
Rated 27 Mar 2015
100
68th
After our Daily Bread this is another great independent documentary.Stylish aesthetic camera photography.

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