Story of Night
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DirectorClemens Klopfenstein
WritersClemens Klopfenstein
1 hr 1 minDocumentary
Plot
Its a blackandwhite record of European cities in the dark 25am from Basle to Belfast Quiet and meditative what emerges most strongly is an eerie sense of city landscapes as deserted film sets in which the desolate architecture overwhelms any sense of reality The only reassurance that we are not in some endless machineMetropolis is the shadow of daytime activity a juggernaut plunging through a darkened village a plague of small birds in the predawn light The whole thing is underscored by a beautiful composed soundtrack from quietly humming streetlights to reggae and the rumble of armoured cars in Belfast A strange and remarkable combination of dream documentary and sciencefiction
