28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Aimless Walk
Aimless Walk
Aimless Walk

Aimless Walk

director: Alexander Hackenschmied
original title: Aimless Walk
country: Czechoslovakia
year: 1930
running time: 12 min.

synopsis

This documentary about roaming through Prague’s outskirts embraces the principles of cinéma pur – a movement from the plot to the action. The special poetic aspects of things and people are much more special here because the images echo specific trends of the time – the New Objectivity and Social Photography movements. This work inspired Effenberger’s now-lost film A Study of a Fraction of Reality (1947).

biography

Alexander Hackenschmied (Hammid) (1907–2004) was a representative of the avant-garde movement in interwar Czechoslovakia. After emigrating in 1939, he participated in several of Maya Deren’s  surrealism-influenced films. He received an Oscar for his short documentary To Be Alive! (1967).

more about film

director: Alexander Hackenschmied
producer: Bedřich Votýpka
script: Alexander Hackenschmied
photography: Alexander Hackenschmied
editing: Alexander Hackenschmied
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
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