ELECTRICITY

by Henry HILLS

2006 / DV Cam / coul / son / 7' 00

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This film has been digitized with the support of the Ministry of Culture, during the 2008 digitization plan. The total length of the film is available online.

A Bohemian architectural dance film with an edge. The inner city landscape of Prague, its beautifully integrated accretion of structures, 1000 years history repressed but un-bombed, viewed through the rhomboidal electricity-catchers on the tops of its moving trams. Trams define the rhythm of the city, & so their looped noises define the rhythm of this film. As contrapuntal fixed point, the Zizkov Tower--built by the Soviets for signal-jamming broadcasts from the West & looking like an about-to-launch ICBM--is accompanied by actual Cold War shortwave spy broadcasts.

1 PRINT IN DISTRIBUTION

distribution format	DV Cam (PAL)
speed	25 ips
screen	1,37 - standard
sound	son Stéréo
rental fee	23,00 €