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Model (1974)

Model poster
Original title
Μοντέλο
Directed by
Kostas Sfikas
Genre
experimental film
Country
Greece
Runtime
1h 45m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This Greek experimental film is a single static shot in negative or primary colors with no sound. It visualizes Karl Marx's Das Kapital by showing the accumulation of time on a product to measure labor and value.

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What happens

Modelo (Μοντέλο) est un film grec réalisé par Kostas Sfikas et sorti en 1974. Modelo est considéré comme l'un des rares films expérimentaux grecs : plan fixe, en négatif ou couleurs primaires, sans son. Il s'agit, à l'image de la Symphonie diagonale de Viking Eggeling, de la mise sur pellicule d'une œuvre philosophique, en l'occurrence Le Capital, de Karl Marx. Selon Savas Michaïl, dans un texte pour la rétrospective Sfikas au festival international du film de Thessalonique 1993, « Modelo est la durée même en film ». Le film montre l'accumulation du temps sur un produit, mesurant l'accumulation de la quantité de temps de travail et donc de valeur. Dominique Noguez l'a comparé aux paysages de Giorgio De Chirico. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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