The second civil war + Pièce touchée

The second civil war + Pièce touchée

Pièce touchée

Pièce touchée

Martin Arnold

  • 1989
  • Austria
  • Experimental / Found footage
  • 16mn
  • Sound
  • Black and white
This experimental filmmaker recycles eighteen seconds from a 50's Hollywood movie to decompose, distort, and overturn these images into fifteen convulsive minutes, in which a husband comes to visit his wife who is sitting in an armchair. An ordinary, very simple scene that turns into an improbable stressful dance.
Beyond experimentation, Arnold breaks the rhythm of Hollywood cinema by pulling it apart piece by piece, thus decoding its clichés and exposing its hidden social stereotypes.

Credits

  • Production : Martin Arnold

Dominik Moll

Or how to transform an ordinary scene into a hallucinating surrealist trip using the magic of Truca. Fasten your seatbelts.

The second civil war

The second civil war

Joe Dante

  • 1997
  • USA
  • Comedy / Drama
  • 1h37mn
  • Original version with French subtitles
  • Color
Against the President's advice, the governor of Idaho refuses to give refugees political asylum and decides to close the borders. Tensions rise and local militias are on edge. The governor's ready to declare the state's independence. What if the time had finally come for a second civil war?
Too political for Hollywood, Joe Dante can no longer find financing for his films. Except for Gremlins 2, he’s never better overtly expressed his worries and anger than for television, be it in Masters of Horror episodes or in this ferocious satirical uchronia, made 25 years ago and surprisingly so, as it's so prophetic. Those in power are ridiculous but have their finger on the button. It’s one of the films Joe Dante is the proudest of, understandably so.

Credits

  • With : Beau Bridges, Joanna Cassidy, Phil Hartman, James Earl Jones, James Coburn
  • Screenplay : Martyn Burke
  • Photography : Mac Ahlberg
  • Editing : Marshall Harvey
  • Music by : Hummie Mann
  • Production : Chip Diggins, Barry Levinson, Udi Nedivi, Guy Riedel

Dominik Moll

Thanks HBO for this corrosive jewel by Joe Dante ! During 90 minutes it’s as if this TV movie resurrected the audacity of 70’s American cinema, and announced the inventivity of HBO series. A jubilant political satire that predicted the deep rift of today’s America (one that has probably been there from the beginning). No one is spared: politicians, spin-doctors, the military, media and reporters. It’s fun and subversive. Delicious.

Screenings

16/09 • 19h15 • Screen 100
Screening presented by Dominik Moll

Booking