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).
film details
| director: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
| producer: | Bedřich Votýpka |
| script: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
| photography: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
| editing: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
contact
Národní filmový archiv / Malešická 12 / 130 00 / Praha 3 / Czech Republic / www.nfa.cz /
Film at festival
| festival edition: | 2015 |
| section: | Surrealism |
| format: | 35 mm |
| colour: | Black and white |
Info
| director: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
| original title: | Aimless Walk |
| country: | Czechoslovakia |
| year: | 1930 |
| running time: | 12 min. |
