Postwar the films of Daniel Eisenberg
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| Course/Professor: | IMC GENERAL RESERVE |
| Subjects: | Concentration camps--Germany Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Historiography Holocaust survivors Architecture, Modern--20th century Architecture--Germany--History--20th century Night--Psychological aspects Night work City and town life--Illinois--Chicago Experimental films Dachau (Germany) Poland--Social conditions--20th century Germany--Social conditions--20th century France--Social conditions--20th century Germany--History--Unification, 1990 Chicago (Ill.)--Social conditions--21st century Auschwitz (Concentration camp)--Buildings Experimental films Short films |
| Formats: | Video Recording, DVD |
| Material Type: | Projected medium -- Monograph |
| Language: | English, German, French, Polish |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Published: | Chicago, IL : Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, c2011 |
| LC Classification: | P, PN |
| Alternate Titles: | Portion of title: Films of Daniel Eisenberg |
| Analytic Titles: | Displaced person Cooperation of parts Persistence Something more than night |
| Additional Authors: | Eisenberg, Daniel, 1954- Distefano, John Art Institute of Chicago. Video Data Bank |
| Notes: | DVD Title from disc labels "Cooperation of parts" in English, German, French and Polish, with subtitles in English Credits: "Persistence": editor, Daniel Eisenberg ; cinematography, Daniel Eisenberg, Ingo Kratisch ; music, Ferrucio Busoni, Franco Donatoni, Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi ; co-production, WDR-Köln "Persistence": Narrator, John Distefano Credits: "Something more than night": editing, Holen Kahn, Daniel Eisenberg ; cinematography, Ingo Kratisch ; co-production, WDR-Köln Originally released as 16 mm films At head of title on container, discs, and screen: Video Data Bank presents Contents: Disc one. Displaced person (1981, 11 min., b&w) -- Cooperation of parts (1987, 40 min., col.) -- Disc two. Persistence (1997, 84 min., col.) -- Disc three. Something more than night (2003, 73 min., col.) Summary: "Displaced person": An experimental film that works with a carefully chosen set of particular elements in order to explore the larger questions within the historical field. Passages from a Beethoven string quartet established rhythm and breadth in relation to a radio interview with Claude Levi-Strauss, and archival footage obtained from rephotographing Marcel Ophul's "The Sorrow and the Pity." These elements wheel through many revolutions of repetitions and combinations, forming multiple perspectives.--OCLC OLUC Summary: "Cooperation of parts": A journey of questions through signs, landscapes, memories and fixed meanings as Eisenberg travels through Europe, particularly through France, Germany, and Poland. He visits the death camps of Auschwitz and Dachau. With a wide visual field for the complex set of narrative associations, the film spins a tight web of memory, history and experience.--OCLC OLUC Summary: "Persistence": Shot in Berlin during the year of German Unification (1991-92), the film documents the change in landscape that accompanies historical rupture, and the ways in which the past informs our construction of the future.--OCLC OLUC Summary: "'Something more than night' is primarily shot in public spaces: airports, train stations, malls, downtown offices, industrial zones, and the many ethnic neighborhoods that make Chicago an exemplary city of migration at the beginning of the 21st Century." "In contrast to the city-symphony films of the 1920's, whose utopian vision of the industrial age was a composition made from harmonies of light, this film describes the city with our own familiar senses of the night; informed by labor, boredom, fear, fatigue, and anticipation."--Daniel Eisenberg, p. 20 and 21 IMC copy includes public performance rights |
| Physical Description: | 3 videodiscs (208 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (71, [5] p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) |
| OCLC Number: | 765885914 |