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Film | Notfilm
Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton, Ross Lipman
October 13, 2016
A "special event" exceptionally worthy of the expression: Notfilm (2015) is the poetic and deeply insightful result of Ross Lipman's year-long research and restoration work on Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton and their joint short film called Film (1965). The Film Museum will host the Austrian premiere of Notfilm, which will be shown together with a restored version of Film.
From the genius of Beckett to that of Dziga Vertov; from Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Keaton's The Cameraman (1928) to a blisteringly hot film shoot in New York 36 years later, as Keaton and Vertov's brother, cameraman Boris Kaufman, under the guidance of Beckett and director Alan Schneider, concoct one of the most unusual photoplays of all time. Ross Lipman combines all this in his powerful film essay, posing questions on human consciousness in the media-permeated modern age, graced by sensational Beckett documents and a reflection on cinema from its beginnings to the massive changes it is going through today.
Ross Lipman will be present for a Q&A at the Film Museum.
A "special event" exceptionally worthy of the expression: Notfilm (2015) is the poetic and deeply insightful result of Ross Lipman's year-long research and restoration work on Samuel Beckett, Buster Keaton and their joint short film called Film (1965). The Film Museum will host the Austrian premiere of Notfilm, which will be shown together with a restored version of Film.
From the genius of Beckett to that of Dziga Vertov; from Man with a Movie Camera (1929) and Keaton's The Cameraman (1928) to a blisteringly hot film shoot in New York 36 years later, as Keaton and Vertov's brother, cameraman Boris Kaufman, under the guidance of Beckett and director Alan Schneider, concoct one of the most unusual photoplays of all time. Ross Lipman combines all this in his powerful film essay, posing questions on human consciousness in the media-permeated modern age, graced by sensational Beckett documents and a reflection on cinema from its beginnings to the massive changes it is going through today.
Ross Lipman will be present for a Q&A at the Film Museum.
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