EMBARGO
"General Dynamics European Land Systems Steyr": These words can be read towards the ending in Johann Lurf´s EMBARGO. The film has a telling, almost ominous title, and it is accompanied by the information that it deals with arms industry and its locations. In this way, the film demands of its audience an investigating type of look – a perceptual apriori which EMBARGO´s spatial arrangement folds into paradoxical textures.
The image is to be read in paranoia mode. Other films made by Lurf show us a postmodernist multi-purpose hall (Picture Perfect Pyramid) or a torpedo testing site (Reconnaissance) as if these...
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Orig. Title
EMBARGO
EMBARGO
Year
2014
2014
Country
Austria
Austria
Duration
10 min
10 min