Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Det Danske Filmværksted
Cast & Crew
L
Lars Mathisen
Director
L
Lars Mathisen
Producer
L
Lars Mathisen
Writer
L
Lars Mathisen
Editor
Safe Condition Document in the Past Perfect
Audience Score
30 min
Plot
Frames 20thCentury ideologies and dreams of liberation using found footage The film presents an account of the period between 19321985 juxtaposing two different films in a montage format One 18mm home footage of an unknown Danish family taken before and after WW2 A deadpan camera registers happy holiday moments the Berlin Olympics 1936 and the World Exhibition in Paris 1937 Secondly and with the same lack of involvement we see the liberation of Denmark in May 1945 The second film is a first generation erotic movie shot in 1972 showing a students party developing into carnality reflecting the liberating promises of this newly legalized pornography The entire montage is accompanied by and interview with Charles Manson who projects his messianic views from his prison cell Through its antidramatic slide from normality to perversion the film implicitly challenges the 20thCentury welfare states promise of freedom to its citizens
