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An Aimless Walk
Une Promenade inutile
Alexander Hackenschmied
1930 Czechoslovakia 8 minutes no words
DR

Hackenschmied’s first film, a first-person study of a young man who sets out for a distant Prague suburb, associates the spectator with the anonymous protagonist by means of subjective camera.This unconventional vision evokes a lyrical melancholy in everyday reality while the walk becomes a metaphor for imagination or mental trip’

Distribution :
NFA - Narodní Filmovy Archiv/Archives nationales du film
Photography :
Alexander Hackenschmied

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