New Grounds (1933)

Original title

Nieuwe gronden

Directed by

Joris Ivens

Genre

documentary film

Country

Netherlands

Runtime

30 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A documentary about the draining of the Zuiderzee in the Netherlands. The first two parts show the engineering triumph while the third part shows the social impact of the Great Depression.

observationalsomberinstructionalpropagandistcriticalvisually functionalmodestpurposeful

What happens

『新しい土地』（原題：Nieuwe gronden）は、1933年公開のオランダのドキュメンタリー映画。監督はヨリス・イヴェンス。 ゾイデル海の干拓事業を扱った第一部と第二部は技術の勝利の総集編であったが、結論である第三部では大恐慌が起きたため、社会の矛盾にカメラが向けられている。オランダ官憲と衝突したヨリスは、この作品以降、オランダ以外で仕事の場を見出すようになる。 (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.