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Film ist a Girl & a Gun

  • 2009
  • 1h 33m
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7.4/10
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Film ist a Girl & a Gun (2009)
Using images "from the first four and a half decades of cinematography," taken from 11 archives across the world, Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical "film drama in five acts" (genesis, paradeisos, thanatos, imaginary, symposium). In detail, the editing of FILM IST. is again based on visual analogies, the external similarity of bodies, objects, movements and narratives. The film constructs its own amazing attractions from the juxtaposition of documentary, fictional, pornographic, and scientific and propaganda images that are literally alien to their original purpose. In other words, they are images that do not necessarily belong together, though they create visual contexts.
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Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack.

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    • Gustav Deutsch
  • Writer
    • Gustav Deutsch
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    • Director
      • Gustav Deutsch
    • Writer
      • Gustav Deutsch
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      • 1 nomination total

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    4LazySod

    Telling a story with pictures

    The whole concept of cinema is to tell stories with pictures. This film holds on to that thought and takes pictures and clippings from many different (old) movies and connects them together with mixed types of music and tricks of light.

    This kind of setting can work out - if there's enough variation to keep it interesting. To me that is where this film fails - it takes only a very short time before the initial pace wears out and the scenes and clippings start to stretch longer than they should be. The ending result is downright boring.

    The actual story told isn't that bad and the clipping used match that story pretty well, but that in itself isn't enough.

    4 out of 10 clips and scenes

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    • Release date
      • December 4, 2009 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • Austria
      • Germany
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Film Is a Girl & a Gun
    • Production company
      • Loop-Media
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      • $1,344
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 33m(93 min)
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1
      • 1.37 : 1

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