Director: Michaela Grill | Martin Siewert
Year: 2007
Country: Austria
Length: 16 mins
Format: PAL | R0
Colour: Black & White
Certificate: E

Synopsis

The perception of the city in the modern era is characterized by its fleeting and momentary nature. Social and architectural constructions are fragmented and dashing past. Cityscapes attempts to make archived recordings from the Austrian Film Museum legible along these lines. Single images are isolated from the cinematographic flow in order to scrutinise their inscribed cognitive potential. For Walter Benjamin, history disintegrates into images and not stories. Cityscapes is a search along the tracks of these images. — Michaela Grill | Martin Siewert