Underplayed Gems

Studiointerview (1976)

Studiointerview poster
Directed by
Loriot
Country
Germany
Runtime
6 min
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

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 television interviewer talks to a scientist who can enlarge parts of his body using breathing techniques. The conversation goes wrong in awkward and funny ways. It parodies TV interviews and scientific experts.

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What happens

Studiointerview (also The interview or Plastology) is a cartoon sketch by the German humorist Loriot. Divided into four individual sections, it is part of the first episode of the television series Loriot, which was first broadcast in March 1976. The content of the sketch is a television interview with a scientist who is able to enlarge his own body parts using breathing techniques. With the television and science parody as well as the depiction of failed communication, the sketch takes up three basic motifs of Loriot's television work. It also contains a number of sexual allusions, a typical creative device for Loriot. Studiointerview was also shown in the re-edited version of the series Loriot from 1997. The text of the sketch first appeared in 1981 and has since been included in several Loriot anthologies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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