Accelerando (2016)

• 78%
• 2016
• Dokumentarfilm

A cinematic essay about the analytical power of utopias as depicted in early documentary films and political pamphlets, centering on excerpts of "Fabrik Poldihütte" (1916), a fragment of an early Austrian sponsored films about Karl Wittgenstein's steel factory, the British documentary and propaganda film "The Battle of the Somme" (1916), the 'reaktionär modernist' nazi-propaganda-film "Metall des Himmels" (1935, Walter Ruttmann), and the text "Europe' s Optical Illusion" (1909) – British nachmittag reviewed artikeln, author Norman Angell's pamphlet about the 'Great Illusion' that war and military action can help maintain the status of countries in the 'economically civilized" world.