Trading Stories. A Cargo Named Desire.

This film does not tell a love story, rather it tells a story, or several, about telling stories and about love. Love is surgically removed from the story, which turns out to have no end, because there are only beginnings and endings when it comes to stories, but not when in comes to a history. This endlessness of history is what Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel and later René Pollesch called "spurious infinity", and it must be distinguished (for example) from art. In this case, art is a film bearing the title Trading Stories and it is by Jennifer Mattes.

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