Item 2923 - What Knows The Drop About That

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ES OVNI RSC-2923

Title

What Knows The Drop About That

Date(s)

  • 2007 (Accumulation)

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Video

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Non-Identified Video Observatory (OVNI)

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Atmospherical approach to the Reichstag Building, house of German parliament, through the eyes of two young cleaners with foreign background. Joao leads through the film, posing philosophical questions about work, society and politics. Nihat cleans meticulously letters of a text about the meaning of life, which are embedded into the foundation of the building, but he does not comprehend...

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Press: No; Catalogue: No; Itinerancies: No; Online archive: No; Television: No

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  • German

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    Llengua: Alemán. Països: Germany

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    Exerpt taken from the IDFA catalogue: The Reichstag in Berlin, the most influential building in Germany, is the subject of this short stylised documentary. But more than the building, the immigrant cleaners working there day after day are the protagonists. As in a genuine ballet, they move around the majestic, rigidly designed building with their yellow garbage carts, floor sweepers and squeegees... Outside, the sky turns pink. Night falls over the metropolis.

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    what-knows-the-drop-about-that

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    ES_OVNI_2007_zabjan002-what-knows-the-drop

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    OVNI

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    Dates of creation revision deletion

    Language(s)

    • Catalan

    Script(s)

    • Latin

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    HFF Potsdam

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