Studies for the Decay of the West (2010)

Wyborny’s latest flicker film concentrates on factories, industrial wastelands, waterways, cityscapes, and the bits in between, and has an uncanny emotional resonance. It is “serene, in the manner of ants”—to quote the title of the second section—but it is also elegiac and melancholy. Like two other old cranks (Godard and Straub), the director stays true to ideas about filmic composition gestated over many years and thereby provides a glimpse of a utopian cinema.

Released

2010-10-01

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

80 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Klaus Wyborny

TMDB rating

7.0/10 from 3 votes