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  • Cut (IV) (2021)
  • 68 min | Documentary
Cut (IV) (2021)
68 min | Documentary

Based on Hito Steyerl's bracing 2009 essay of the same name, "Cut" looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways, organizing newly urban work forces. A dreamy collage essay made of scraps and fragments, with ...See moreBased on Hito Steyerl's bracing 2009 essay of the same name, "Cut" looks at how cinema and the assembly line both cut the body in new ways, organizing newly urban work forces. A dreamy collage essay made of scraps and fragments, with asides from Susan Sontag on Disney fascism, and Paul B. Preciado on the cost of living in a body. In the cinema, when a shot ends, the director uses one word to close the door. She says "cut." A cut separates two shots, or else it brings them together. It's the first tool for building the world of the screen. Written by V-tape See less
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Director
Writers
Mike Hoolboom (screenplay) | Paul B. Preciado (collaborating writer) | Susan Sontag (collaborating writer) | Hito Steyerl (author)
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Updated Dec 31, 2021

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2021 (Canada)

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9 cast members
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Mike Hoolboom
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Natalie Bookchin
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Charles Chaplin
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Henry Ford
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Michel Foucault
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Siegfried Kracauer
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Susan Sontag
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