Dreams Rewired (2015)

Directed by

Thomas Tode, Martin Reinhart, Manu Luksch

Genre

documentary film

Country

Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

Runtime

1h 28m

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This essay film looks at how today's technology stirs up feelings of longing and worry. It uses old film clips from the late 1800s and early 1900s to draw connections between past and present.

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What happens

Dreams Rewired (German title: Mobilisierung der Träume) is a 2015 Austrian/German/British feature documentary/essay film that reflects on the desires and anxieties provoked by contemporary information technologies, using archival footage from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is notable for including several previously unseen or newly restored films, including excerpts from the recently discovered version of Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin with the original 1925 score by Edmund Meisel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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