An experimental film by a group of young Victorian filmmakers. Nonchalantly, the cleaner dusts the works of art created by ancient Greek potters, Renaissance painters and modern sculptors. Each piece marks the stage in our progress as percipient thinking beings: civilisations mature and die - but we survive, at least until today. As the cleaner blows dust from the ear of Epstein’s Einstein, he is ignorant of the terrible forces such a mind has unleashed; for good or ill these forces can, almost, be directed by a toss of a coin.
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ACMI Identifier
321212
Language
English
Subject categories
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - History
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art and motion pictures
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Consciousness
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Existentialism
Experimental → Experimental films - Australia
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Consciousness
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - presentation
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan
MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - presentation
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan
MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI External Digital Access Copy