Dreams Rewired

Product Description Tilda Swinton's hypnotic voiceover and a treasure trove of rare archival footage culled from hundreds of films from the 1880s through the 1930s-much of it previously unseen-combine to trace the anxieties of today's hyper-connected world back a hundred years. Then, too, electric media sparked idealism in the public imagination-hailed as the beginning of an era of total communication, annihilation of distance and the end of war. But then, too, fears over the erosion of privacy, security, morality proved to be well-founded. Using excerpts from early dramatic films, slapstick comedies, political newsreels, advertisements and recordings of scientific experiments culled during years of research in film archives around the world, co-directors Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart and Thomas Tode unearth material that is by turns hilarious, revelatory, beautiful and prescient. The archival footage, combined with poetic narration and a virtuosic score by Siegfried Friedrich forges a cross-generational connection between contemporary viewers and their idealistic forbearers of a century ago. Review This film essay features an intricately, crafted voice-over by Tilda Swinton, melding together historic fact and contemporary theories. --Screen International 4 Stars! A marvelous essay film [that] leaves you fantasizing about what things there are to come. --Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian Explores the history and ongoing narratives and idealizations that new advents in technology brought, like end to global crisis, less barriers to the outside world, as well as the end of privacy and security. --Aimee Murillo, Orange County Weekly
ASIN: B01ABW6O9W
VSKU: DBV.B01ABW6O9W.A
Condition: Acceptable
Author/Artist:Manu Luksch|Martin Reinhart|Thomas Tode|Tilda Swinton
Binding: Dvd
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