Underplayed Gems

Scieurs de bois (1896)

Scieurs de bois poster
Directed by
Constant Girel
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
1 min
Rating
4.8 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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The catalogue in 3D

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How it feels

A short film shows three men sawing firewood in a public square in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is a simple record of people doing physical work in the late 19th century.

repetitiveobservationalquietstraightforwardstaticutilitariandocumentary-stylemundane

What happens

Scieurs de bois è un cortometraggio del 1896 diretto da Constant Girel. Catalogo Lumière n° 93 Constant Girel, riprende nella place Saint-François a Losanna in Svizzera, tre uomini mentre tagliano la legna da ardere. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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