pièce touchée - martin arnold

pièce touchée, Martin Arnold, Austria,16mm Film, b&w, 16 min
Arnold's breakthrough film, pièce touchée, is based on a single 18-second shot from The Human Jungle (dir. Joseph M. Newman, 1954). Woman sitting in a chair. Man enters the room. Man and woman kiss. Exit man.

• Category

  Film & Animation

[FidelioRoo]

The original YouTubePoop!

[Dipstikk]

LITTLE KNOWN FACT!

It's actually Robotnik; he's trying to figure out if it's possible to rape a doorknob.

[StroutsInk]

The sounds you are hearing are meant to emulate the machine. The film itself is posing questions about the medium of film, as well as the movement of modernism. When we watch films, we take them at face value and sometimes as truth. But, in fact, the images are recorded by a machine and shown back to you by another machine. Arnold was trying to prompt us to think about these things. Repetition is also another issue he wanted to raise. The hum of the machine evokes this thought.

[StroutsInk]

The filmmaker was posing intellectual questions about the medium of film as well as the features of modernism. Modernism is the artistic and philosophical movement that took place after industrialization occurred. The meaning of the film is to prompt you to ask questions about mechanization, repetition, and the machine. It is also meant to challenge your understanding of film as a truthful medium. What is presented to us by film is not real, it is a series of images produced by machinery.

[Sean Wilson]

its for a college class

[Quadronnn]

No one forced you to watch it. It's your own fault if you decided to waste your precious 8 minutes.

[Sean Wilson]

what on earth was this clip dislike this whole thing wasted 8 minutes of my life thanks to the professor

[jednaTRETINA]

I was told by my lecturer the sound is genuine as the picture itself, but it appears to me there must be some kind of editation

[LemonsAndDragons]

must have been laggy in the 1900s

[sarakinskywalker]

i love this. very fascinating. i'm doing some editing like this on a short film that i'm working on right now.

[Christina Yglesias]

Does anyone know details about the sound in this piece?