Cut
Based on Hito Steyerl's bracing 2009 essay of the same name, "Cut" looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways, organizing newly urban work forces. A dreamy collage essay made of scraps and fragments, with asides from Susan Sontag on Disney fascism, and Paul B. Preciado on the cost of living in a body. In the cinema, when a shot ends, the director uses one word to close the door. She says "cut." A cut separates two shots, or else it brings them together. It's the first tool for building the world of the screen.
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Released
- 2021
Details
Release year: 2021
Storyline
Based on Hito Steyerl's bracing 2009 essay of the same name, "Cut" looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways, organizing newly urban work forces. A dreamy collage essay made of scraps and fragments, with asides from Susan Sontag on Disney fascism, and Paul B. Preciado on the cost of living in a body. In the cinema, when a shot ends, the director uses one word to close the door. She says "cut." A cut separates two shots, or else it brings them together. It's the first tool for building the world of the screen.
Top credits
- Mike Hoolboom — Self, Narrator
- Natalie Bookchin — Self
- Charles Chaplin
- Henry Ford — Self