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- 2005 (Accumulation)
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Video
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Industrian Pilz examines the culture of industrialization through the lens of mycology - the botanical study of fungi. Splicing original investigative footage shot in a German industrial zone with archival film clips, scenes of cultural globalization from popular media, and samplings from the music and musings of pioneering myco-aesthete, John Cage, the film recombines real-time expressions of the zone's recent history to make visible a broader and more gradual process. As capitalism's claims to absolute naturalness gain rhetorical momentum, the mycological lens allows models of 'the natural' both as the agent-less conversion of decaying matter and as a parasitic, potentially toxic, and deeply site specific process - one whose odd position in the economy of matter does not allow easy romantic identifications. Through a hybrid structure incorporating documentary, narrative and "industrial video" formats, the film explores the flotsam and jetsam drifting in the wake of West Germany's absorption of a decaying East German state.
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Press: Yes; Catalogue: Yes; Itinerancies: Yes; Online archive: Yes; Television: No
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Permisos: premsa, catàleg, itineràncies, arxiu online
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German
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Llengua: Alemán
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ovni-archives: Fri, June 22, 2007 5:01 am contactado por mariano version subtiutlada en ingles
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- Mark Shepard (Accumulator)
- Mark Shepard (Subject)
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Latin
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Creative Commons, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/