TONIGHT: Industrian Pilz @ Anthology Film Archives - Wednesday, April 20th @ 6PM

WHAT:Industrian Pilz (digital video, 39 min, 2003)
WHEN:Wednesday, April 20th @ 6PM
WHERE:Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Ave @ 2nd St, NYC
INFO:(212) 505-5181
$5 Admission

INDUSTRIAN PILZ
A short film by Mark Shepard
http://www.andinc.org/industrianpilz

Industrian Pilz examines the culture of industrialization through the
lens of mycology - the botanical study of fungi. Splicing original
investigative footage shot in a German industrial zone with archival
film clips, scenes of cultural globalization from popular media, and
samplings from the music and musings of pioneering myco-aesthete, John
Cage, the film recombines real-time expressions of the zone's recent
history to make visible a broader and more gradual process. As
capitalism's claims to absolute naturalness gain rhetorical momentum,
the mycological lens allows models of 'the natural' both as the
agent-less conversion of decaying matter and as a parasitic,
potentially toxic, and deeply site specific process - one whose odd
position in the economy of matter does not allow easy romantic
identifications. Through a hybrid structure incorporating documentary,
narrative and "industrial video" formats, the film explores the flotsam
and jetsam drifting in the wake of West Germany's absorption of a
decaying East German state.

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