Studies for the Decay of the West

Wybornys 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 antsto quote the title of the second sectionbut 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