World Mirror Cinema. Episode 1 – 3

In this found footage work, the masses absorb artwork. Views from three historical cameras as they pan the streets and squares of Vienna, Surabaya, and Porto provide a starting point to reflect on the relationship between everyday stories and cinematic machinery. Welt Spiegel Kinoʼs steadfast piercing of this relationship’s dynamic is astounding. Each of the three pans – taken between 1912 and 1930 – contains a cinema; in the montage, passersby become chance protagonists in a series of micro-tales that report on both cinematic and world history. Deutschʼs method for connecting archive material is highly hypertextual: every person in the film refers to a multitude of socio-cultural contexts, similar to the hyperlinks in the interactive CD-ROM Odysee Today from Deutsch and his partner Hanna Schimek. (MFFK Febiofest)