In Leviathan, a child cries next to a carcass of a massive sea animal, Béla Tarr’s uncanny whale stripped down to its bare bones, literally. Post-Soviet Russia does away with the Hungarian fetish, reducing circus spectacle to pure, ugly apathy. Yet the motif persists, digging into Eastern European soil.
I forgot how sad this was…
This was good in showing some obscure archive footage from clubs that no longer exist which is pretty crucial!
However there is absolutely 0 mention of the Detroit influence on the Berlin scene? Nothing is said about Underground Resistance? This doesn’t even talk about Tresor whatsoever because if they were to talk about it they would have to say at least something about Jeff Mills and his sets there lmao. Techno is black, and the documentary fails to show this.
Pretty underwhelming, although does visualise and put into perspective the stuff that I read in Der Klang der Familie!
