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About ‘Song of Ceylon’ by Basil Wright

1975 · 30m · Documentary

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Overview

Song of Ceylon was commissioned for the short-lived German TV-series Telekritik and broadcasted in 1975. In Telekritik documentary approaches were analysed and made available for a critique of contemporary TV, its aesthetics and modes of production. Other authors for the series include Hartmut Bitomsky, Rainer Gansera and Klaus Wildenhahn.In the 30-minute movie, Farocki shows and comments on excerpts from the film Song of Ceylon by Basil Wright (and a short segment of Eisenstein's Mexico-fragments). Farocki's voice-over describes part of the movie, focussing on details and montage. He also uses didactic and descriptive drawings and intertitles to confront the classic documentary and its stylistic approaches with contemporary TV.

Cast

Harun Farocki

Harun Farocki

(voice)

Crew

Details

Release date
October 7, 1975
Status
Released
Original language
German
Runtime
30m
Genres
Documentary

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