Container #24 Walden Screening tonight!
Plus details on our next screenings and screwball cinema..
Hello. Thank you once again for joining us.
Tonight’s Screening:
Walden, Daniel Zimmerman, 2018, 106m
In the forest of the Catholic Monastery of Admont in Austria a fir tree is felled and processed into planks of wood. By train, truck, boat and finally by hand, the stack is transported to a mysterious destination right in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest. The wooden planks’ trajectory corresponds to one of the central, raw materials trade routes, however in reversed direction of transport.
Thematically about the circulation of wood and globalisation, Daniel Zimmerman’s Walden is also a tour de force of timing and composition constructed out of thirteen 360-degree shots that establish a series of rules before playing with our expectations.
Unrated 15+
With thanks to sixpackfilms
Additional Readings (for those who have the time and curiosity):
Actually let’s recommend Daniel Zimmerman’s interview with Jason Di Rosso for Radio National. You have to listen. Our apologies.
Upcoming Screenings:
1 August: Daniel Zimmerman’s Walden
15 August: Lewis Klahr’s Circumstantial Pleasures (pictured above.)
Just a quick shoutout to GoMA and the Australian Cinematheque for their (just started) series on Hollywood Screwballs with all the titles being presented on 35mm. All the films are classics so it feels faintly absurd singling a few out, but we’re doing our best to see Minnie and Moskowitz, one of the rarer films by John Cassavetes, Ishtar, the famous (now reclaimed) flop from Elaine May, and pretty much every film by Preston Sturges (including The Lady Eve, pictured above.)
Thank you. We look forward to catching you tonight for our screening of Walden and then in a fortnight for our screening of Lewis Klahr’s Circumstantial Pleasures a paranoid animated collage that we kinda love.