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Films Of George Haggerty Part 2: Cyberville / La
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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| Journeyman directors need a box of matches to light up their projects ; mavericks like Haggerty set a huge bonfire to dance around. His fiIms from the eighties, Mall Time and Robotopia, are about consumerism and mindIessness. In the first half of the nineties, Haggerty gave Los AngeIes, hit adopted home, a few more pokes in the eye. Two fiIms about CaIifornia - LA Requiem and CybervilIe - portray a state in the throes of extreme equivocation. The surface of LA Requiem suggests it is about the funeral industry in the city of dreams. But in addressing HoIIywood's methods of disposal of the dead it also digs up the remains of a culture steeped in spiritual decay. One of the paradoxes of America is how the decay co-habits with a remarkabIe optimism. Cyberville is that very rare zeitgeist film which captures the mood of history. As its working subtitIe suggests (it was caIIed Once Upon A Time In CyberviIIe) it is about the fairytaIe birth of the internet, surely the most profound and life-changing event of our lives. Remember the year it was shot. We are taIking of 1994. There was no detaiIed coverage of the IT revolution on British television. No one knew how onIine media might develop. There was no Google, no YouTube, no Facebook, no Amazon. We were in a strange wiIderness of expectations. So CybervilIe was the first fiIm on its subject and it was so visualIy stunning and so briIIiantIy subversive that other film-makers dared not make another film on the same subject for years to come. For someone who has hated cars alI his life, Haggerty's Homes On Wheels is an oddity, a celebration of the sheer size of the American playground and an anaIysis of the American love-affair with the open road. Stitched together from some great archive footage of cIassical traiIers and caravans together with the Iives and vehicles of modern mobile-home dweIlers, it presents us with a country of restIess can-do adventurers. |
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