Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art
The Language of Things
DirectorAngela Melitopoulos
33 min
Plot
An attempt to translate Walter Benjamins theory On the Language as Such and on the Language of Man into a montage using images from Tokyos hightech amusement parks and artificial environments precisely calculated acceleration and merrygoround machines sophisticated wave pools affecting bodies with promethic rhythms how does the language of man and the language of things read in relation to the industrial development of hightech amusement parks and the calculability of skyreaching affects Angela Melitopoulos There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language for it is in the nature of each one to communicate its mental contents on language as such and on the language of man Walter Benjamin On the Language as Such and on the Language of Man
