| Description |
1 online resource (88 minutes) |
| Summary |
A poetic time travel fantasy through the imagined history of the United States as a modern fairyland, along the traces of our desire for illusion and escapism - fatally bound between fact and fiction, anticipating the current reality shifts in the US. Playland USA questions the possibilities and limits of the representation of history and is a self-reflection regarding film as a medium. The film asks essential questions: What is seeing? How do we see the world? And: What is invisible, for us, for others? The film draws a line in cinematic images from Noah's Ark to the colonization of Mars, including dinosaurs, Indians, and superheroes, of course. It becomes increasingly clear that Benjamin Schindler has made many "American Dreams" into an "American Nightmare", inscribing quotes of pop culture and Hollywood into a biblical history. When the film recounts the shooting at the Batman premiere in Aurora, reality and fiction have finally merged |
| Notes |
Title from title screen (viewed January 04, 2022) |
| Credits |
Cinematography: Benjamin Schindler |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Time travel.
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Voyages, Imaginary.
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American Dream.
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Historiography -- United States
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History in motion pictures.
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History in popular culture.
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American Dream.
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Historiography.
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History in motion pictures.
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History in popular culture.
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Time travel.
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Voyages, Imaginary.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Schindler, Benjamin (Film producer and director), director, producer, director of photography, screenwriter
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Wallenfels, Fabian (Film producer), producer
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Hübner, Levin, producer
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Hübner/Wallenfels, production company, presenter
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zeitgebilde Filmproduktion, production company, presenter
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Monarda Arts (Firm), film distributor.
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