Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: 109425D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 4058407094258
- Street Date: 10/23/20
- PreBook Date: 09/18/20
- Label: Arthaus Musik »
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 88 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2019
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US,MEXICO
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Schindler
- Benjamin
- Director: Schindler
- Director: Benjamin
Product Assets
Benjamin Schindler - Playland Usa
A fascinating journey through United States in which the lines between fact and fiction are blurred.
- List Price: $29.95
- Your Price: $29.95
- In Stock: 6
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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, Hollywood-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.
