An experimental documentary/essay film about the mechanisms of social conditioning and education. The mechanisms of power manifest themselves in the architecture and in the hierarchic organisation of the institutions. This conditions individuals and leads them to self-discipline. Two situations are studied in the film: A bank building, contemporary architecture with one part in plain walls and another part with mainly glass elements, transparent. Interviews with the architect and two executives who talk about the working conditions in this building. The mechanisms of the social state devices have a similar function: They also serve for the surveillance of the inhabitants of a slum in Marseille, France. The resettlement of these people who are descendants of travelling people ('gipsies' and Berbers) into suburban housing. The travelling people live in the slum called "campagne fenouil" near Marseille, France, since the 60s. They talk about their life there, the social structures and organisation, their labour conditions, their origins and how they stand towards the resettlement into suburban housing.
3 PRINTS IN DISTRIBUTION
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distribution format |
Mini DV |
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version
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German version |
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screen |
4/3 (single screen) |
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sound |
sound |
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original language |
French |
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translation |
German (Voice over) |
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rental fee |
110,00 € |
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distribution format |
Mini DV |
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version
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French version |
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screen |
4/3 (single screen) |
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sound |
sound |
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original language |
French |
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rental fee |
110,00 € |
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distribution format |
16mm |
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version
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French version |
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screen |
1,37 (single screen) |
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speed |
24 fps |
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sound |
magnetic sound |
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original language |
French |
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rental fee |
110,00 € |
