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Studies for the Decay of the West

2010 · 80 min

A patient, wordless drift through industrial ruins and waterways, serene yet quietly mournful, rewarding those who surrender to its rhythm.

Directed by: Klaus Wyborny
Genres: Documentary

Overview: Wyborny’s latest flicker film concentrates on factories, industrial wastelands, waterways, cityscapes, and the bits in between, and has an uncanny emotional resonance. It is “serene, in the manner of ants”—to quote the title of the second section—but it is also elegiac and melancholy. Like two other old cranks (Godard and Straub), the director stays true to ideas about filmic composition gestated over many years and thereby provides a glimpse of a utopian cinema.

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Directed by: Klaus Wyborny
Genres: Documentary

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Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: environment
work
memory
isolation
Places: countryside
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Realism	8
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Complexity	8
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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Klaus Wyborny
Written by: Klaus Wyborny
Music: Klaus Wyborny
Cinematography: Klaus Wyborny
Runtime: 80 min
Country: Germany
Languages: No Language

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