Short film
Die kleine Maschine
1977 · 1 min
A minute-long single-shot provocation that asks you to read a broken zip and a safety pin as a wry comment on technology and the body.
- Directed by
- Ernst Schmidt Jr.
- Overview
- Sara Suranyi, known from Schmidt Jr.'s 12 Uhr Mittags – High Noon, The Merry Widow and Mein Begräbnis ein Erlebnis (My Funeral an Adventure), now active as Sara Berger in painting and photography, is co-creator and star of this one-shot movie dated "Vienna 1977". Does the eponymous little machine allude to the pubic hair framed in close-up by the zip fastener of a pair of jeans? Well, it's not about sexuality, but rather about technology: the zip is broken, so Suranyi uses a safety pin to close the jeans fly. And to close the film. (In Suranyi/Berger's list of works, this film is listed under Die Sicherheitsnadel...
- How it feels
- Absurd, satirical, whimsical and earnest. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
- About
- Technology, identity, art
- Content
- Mild sexual content. No violence, gore or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Ernst Schmidt Jr.