Glossary of Broken Dreams
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Glossary of Broken Dreams |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Grenzfurthner |
| script |
Johannes Grenzfurthner , Ishan Raval |
| production |
Johannes Grenzfurthner , Günther Friesinger ( monochrome ) |
| music | Daniel Hasibar et al. a. |
| camera | Thomas Weilguny u. a. |
| cut | Johannes Grenzfurthner |
| occupation | |
Glossary of Broken Dreams is an essayistic, experimental documentary by the Austrian director and artist Johannes Grenzfurthner . In short, acted segments, the film explains terms from the political discussion (e.g. capitalism , resistance, freedom , privacy ) and tries to paint a social picture of the time of the early 21st century. The film makes use of various stylistic elements such as puppet theater , cartoons and pixel graphics .
The film had its European premiere at the Diagonale in March 2018 and its North American premiere at the Vermont International Film Festival in April 2018.
The film was produced by monochrom .
concept
Johannes Grenzfurthner, who literally describes himself in the film as a ' lump nerd ', acts as a narrative bracket. He acts as a storyteller who moderates and comments on the different parts of the film. The film does not make use of the classic aesthetics and methodology of documentary film. Glossary of Broken Dreams shows no archive material and does not use interviews. Rather, the film presents the political and philosophical concepts in the form of acted, humorous-bizarre sequences with exaggerated fictional characters. These are played by actors, performers and musicians (e.g. . Amber Benson , Max Grodénchik , Stefanie nail in the coffin , Robert Stachel , Duscher & Gratzer so). the film can be seen in the tradition of reflexive and performative documentaries are.
Grenzfurthner says about his motivation to make the film:
I found that something like a political spring cleaning of the terms was necessary. Because only if we really take the broom in hand and dare to dispose of things do we all prevent left-wing liberal hoarders. As an example, I'll take the concept of privacy , which everyone smiles at like a baby dog. So much can be revealed: As a good old new leftist, I have a problem with the very conservative and deeply bourgeois rat tail that the privacy debate carries around with it. I think it is time to exchange thought templates here. The question is not: "How can we defend privacy the hell out of it?" But: "Why is privacy so important to us?" Can it not be that we are more interested in reformist combating symptoms than in solving the underlying problems?
chapter
Prologue
With Johannes Grenzfurthner
Grenzfurthner introduces himself as a moderator and defines people as narrative and political beings. There is a demand for a clarification of terms and concepts in political discourse. Which are still useful?
Capitalism / Market / Freedom (Capitalism / The Market / Freedom)
With Stuart Freeman (as Brian Ewok) and Conny Lee (as Madame Juju)
An introduction to the basic rule system of the capitalist world order and an overview of its historical development.
Competition (Competition)
With Harald Homolka List (as Hans Platzgaumer) and Bronwynn Mertz Penzinger (as Platzgaumers cerebral cortex)
An analysis of the positive and negative characteristics of based on competitive systems (such as capitalism and biological evolution ) with regard to the resolution of current relations of exploitation.
Accumulation (Accumulation)
With Johannes Grenzfurthner (as Doctor Ullmaier) and Alexander E. Fennon (as a bank clerk)
This section explains capital accumulation in an ironic demonstration in which 50 euros are wasted through a currency exchange process.
Resistance / Activism (resistance / activism)
By John Grenzfurthner (as a woman mud Peitz Inger) and Robert Stachel (as a waiter Walter Peckinpah)
A story of the transformation of Western societies of disciplinary societies in societies of control and as positive subversion in art, politics and activism more difficult.
The Media (Die Medien)
With Amber Benson (as Pfefferkarree McCormick), Michael J. Epstein (as DeForest Schbeibi) and Katharina Stemberger and Stefanie Sargnagel (as debaters)
An analysis and critique of the function of the media in liberal societies. It is on freedom of expression , Fake News received and other tags.
Privacy / Data (Privacy / data)
with Ahmed Abdel-Salam (as Modern subjects) and Jim Libby (as information gauze)
This section provides a historical overview of the concept of privacy and its emergence as part of the bourgeois economy . Criticism has been expressed that the currently prevailing data protection movement does not address the more fundamental problems facing society. The idea is introduced for the first time in the film (continued in "The Left") that information and computerization can only be used in an emancipatory and socially liberating way if the current definition of private property changes.
Nature Vs Nurture (plant versus environment)
With David Fine (as a pansexual German parachutist)
This story about a chimpanzee tries to explain social conditioning.
Politics / Identity (politics / identity)
with Andrea Nitsche (as Dr. Bullet Point of Sganarelle) and Michael Smulik (as policy)
An introduction to the "concept policy ", coupled with a profound criticism of the concept of identity politics . Grenzfurthner and Raval are clearly in favor of universalism .
Democracy / Social Democracy (Democracy / Social Democracy)
With Jeff Ricketts (as President Ödem von Horvath), Max Grodénchik (as a biological man) and Kudra Owens (as a biological woman)
An analysis and questioning of social democratic politics in a globalized and financial market- oriented post-Fordist world .
The Left (Die Linke)
with Martin Auer (as Professor Alain Xavior Schnürlsamt), Johannes Grenzfurthner (as Harnulf Rohrkrepierer), David Dempsey (as Sven Shitpornson), Anna Behne (as Lady Unsquaredance), Jason Scott Sadofsky (as Billy Bob Turingengine) and Franz Ablinger (as Seemann Dieselfink)
A criticism of current left-wing activities with the main question why the left cannot break away from tactics of the 20th century. The campaigns, which are often emotionalizing and affect-oriented, cannot initiate any necessary course corrections. Particularly in view of the massive changes in the field of information technology and the changing production methods of goods, the demand for new commons , a new digital commons , is made.
Epilogue
With Johannes Grenzfurthner (as director) and Gerald Votava (as producer).
The end of the film is a self-ironic examination of the production conditions of the film.
criticism
"This" glossary of unfulfilled dreams "is a film essay about failed hopes, about the unfulfilled promises of happiness and freedom in recent human history - from the Enlightenment and liberalism to capitalism and communism to art, activism and punk."
“Produced on a small budget as a monumental puzzle, [Grenzfurthner] takes its audience with it through an encyclopedia of worn, misunderstood and corrupted terms and ideas. This becomes explosive due to the fact that it is precisely the favorite vocabulary of current discourses, the golden calves of contemporary debates on politics and society. Grenzfurthner takes you to the slaughter with relish, to rummage in your bowels and read an uncertain future from it. "
“It's about having fun. As in the film "Glossary of Broken Dreams", the latest bravura piece from the monochrom workshop. [...] The opus that gets to the bottom of big buzzwords - "capitalism", "justice", "politics", "freedom", "global warming" or "privacy" - is great, full of bizarre scenes and meaningless nonsense . "
Awards (selection)
- Award of Merit for Documentary Feature - 2018 IndieFest
- Best Experimental Film - Subversive Cinema Awards 2018
- Best Feature Documentary Foreign - Indie Gathering Awards 2018
- Best Hacker Film - HOPE 2018
- Award of Merit for Feature Documentary - Impact Doc Awards 2018
- Best feature film - Austrian Film Festival 2018
Web links
- Glossary of Broken Dreams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film
- At the Golden-Calf Slaughterhouse (Interview with Johannes Grenzfurthner in Boing Boing about the film)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bradley Gibson: Glossary of Broken Dreams. In: Film Threat. March 27, 2018, Retrieved February 27, 2019 (American English).
- ^ Glossary of Broken Dreams at Diagonale Film Festival
- ↑ Glossary of Broken Dreams at VTIFF 2018
- ↑ barbara.wimmer: Monochrome: "Digital politicization is experiencing a renaissance". Retrieved February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ waldeck: # Film reviews. December 29, 2019, accessed on January 3, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Annie Vincent: Glossary of Broken Dreams . UK Film Review. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
- ↑ skug | MUSIC CULTURE | A swan song for the ignorant society. March 29, 2018, accessed February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Zebra Butter: "The film Glossary of Broken Dreams or: At the Abattoir At the Golden Calf"; April 25, 2018
- ↑ FM4, Morningshow, interview over 25 years monochrome
- ↑ Zebra Butter: "The film Glossary of Broken Dreams or: At the Abattoir At the Golden Calf"; April 25, 2018
- ↑ Thomas Kaestle: The Movie Glossary of Broken Dreams or: At the Abattoir At the Golden Calf. In: zebra butter. April 25, 2018, accessed February 27, 2019 .
- ↑ Daniel Alexander Schacht: Glossary of Broken Dreams: Film premiere starts in the Apollo cinema - in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 3, 2018
- ↑ Thomas Kaestle: The film Glossary of Broken Dreams or: In the Schlachthaus Zum Goldenen Kalb - in: Zebrabutter from April 25, 2018
- ↑ Wolfgang Paterno: Die Allesfresser - in: Profile from March 17, 2018
- ↑ The IndieFest, Awards of Merit 2018
- ^ Subversive Cinema Society, Best Experimental Film 2018
- ^ The Indie Gathering, Best Feature Documentary Foreign 2018
- ↑ HOPE Konference 2018, Glossary of Broken Dreams, Best Hacker Film
- ↑ Impact Docs Awards, Awards of Merit 2018
- ^ Austrian Film Festival 2018, list of winners 2018