Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts

10/22/2009

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2hrs 35min

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Documentary

STORY

Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey's murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerizing psycho-geographical exploration of modern day Vienna. The film incorporates a record of the subversive underbelly of the city into a poetic meditation on conspiracy theory, ecoterrorism, time and cinema, retracing the story of The Third Man. Adapted from a trilogy of Whitehead's own Nohzone novels, the objective and subjective becomes blurred as the film director merges with the fictional detective in a journey into the murky activities of covert counter-insurgency groups. Kaleidoscopic in intent, the film mixes Noh theatre, Victorian novels, Vienna after the war, opium, domain names and Jacob's ladder "pitched twixt Heaven and Charring Cross".

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Samantha Berger
  • Sophie Strohmeier
  • Liza Tsyzina-Whitehead
  • Joanna Woodrow
  • Alice Schneider

    Director

  • Peter Whitehead

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English