Untitled(2019)
Far right radicalism cannot be innate, it is always a result of socio-economic frustrations. We asked our friends to try on the uniform of the National Corps and think about the far right political identity from inside.
"Dieser Film soll ein Bild der Welt entstehen lassen, wie es nur gemacht werden kann, wenn man keinem Thema nachgeht, keine Wertung sucht und kein Ziel verfolgt. Wenn man sich von nichts treiben lässt außer der eigenen Neugier und Intuition." (Michael Glawogger)
A film-maker, his girlfriend, his female colleague and their rich producer spend a weekend making a documentary within an isolated haunted cottage in Wales.
Martin Arnold has adopted a fragment from the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary thriller PSYCHO, rendering and composing it anew with the possibilities of digital retouching. The result is a short yet intense piece of contemporary aesthetics. Devoted mainly to density and omission, it visualizes the cinematic narrative on all its levels as a cinematographic and aesthetic mise en scène. Simultaneously, it reveals that a resolving adaptation of traditional cinematic forms can also create suspense, excitement and pleasure.
As Untitled (1977) opens we see whitish blue streaks close to the camera continually appear and disappear. The background is indistinct, but gradually similar streaks seemingly at a greater distance come into focus, while the foreground streaks grow fuzzier. Soon we guess that we're looking at falling snow, and it seems we're viewing it from a window as he gradually changes the focus from close-up to infinity. Well before the focus change ends, a tannish red mass starts to materialize in the background; as it comes into focus we realize it's a brick wall.