28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Aimless Walk
director: Alexander Hackenschmied
original title: Aimless Walk
country: Czechoslovakia
year: 1930
running time: 12 min.
synopsis
This documentary about roaming through Prague’s outskirts embraces the principles of cinéma pur – a movement from the plot to the action. The special poetic aspects of things and people are much more special here because the images echo specific trends of the time – the New Objectivity and Social Photography movements. This work inspired Effenberger’s now-lost film A Study of a Fraction of Reality (1947).biography
Alexander Hackenschmied (Hammid) (1907–2004) was a representative of the avant-garde movement in interwar Czechoslovakia. After emigrating in 1939, he participated in several of Maya Deren’s surrealism-influenced films. He received an Oscar for his short documentary To Be Alive! (1967).more about film
director: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
producer: | Bedřich Votýpka |
script: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
photography: | Alexander Hackenschmied |
editing: | Alexander Hackenschmied |