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<-- back Pirate Cinema Berlin presents: The Parallel Street "The Parallel Street" is Ferdinand Khittl's only feature film, and it remains  an absolute outlier in German cinema. Released in 1962 to an almost  non-existing audience, and only recently rediscovered, it manages to transform  a two-year journey around the world into an impossible, globe-spanning  travelogue that treats the fragmentary form of its own material with constant  suspicion and great irony. About a third of the film's runtime is devoted to a  group of analysts who, in a thoroughly absurd setting and increasingly  desperate mood, are trying to make sense of the images they are presented with.  What makes their task even more hopeless is that Khittl's footage marks a  radical departure from the tradition of European ethnographic cinema, as he  persistently refuses, or sometimes intentionally fails, to transform the people  and places he encounters into objects of reflection. Instead, Khittl, whose  background in industrial film shines through in many of his shots, and whose  camera does not discriminate between the mysteries of chemistry, religion,  labor, architecture or color, delivers an equally distanced and delirious  monologue in which the centuries of colonial history that his narration  traverses -- the extraction of natural resources, the construction of  transportation networks, the self-perpetuating crimes of war and the  never-ending rituals of love and death -- retain all their horrors, as horrors. http://savvy-contemporary.com/index.php/projects/filmseriesupcoming/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                              the parallel street                                                                 ferdinand khittl                                                      de 1962 83 min english subs                                                                        wednesday                                                                         march 29                                                                             7 pm                                                               savvy contemporary                                                               plantagenstraße 31                                                                           berlin                                                                     copies to go                                                                bring a usb stick                                                                    or hard drive --------------------------------------------------------------------------------          ()          >< pirate cinema berlin www.piratecinema.org <-- back