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The Language of Things (2006)

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An attempt to translate Walter Benjamin's theory "On the Language as Such and on the Language of Man" into a montage using images from Tokyo's hightech amusement parks and artificial environments: precisely calculated acceleration and merry-go-round 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 sky-reaching 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")

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Original titleThe Language of Things
Original languageEN
StatusReleased
Production companiesArsenal Institute for Film and Video Art
Release date1 gennaio 2006
Assistant directorsAngela Melitopoulos

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Germany / Jan 01, 2006

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