The Illegal Film
Who owns the image(s) of the world?
Since time immemorial, we have used images to form a picture of the world.But never before has there been as much filming and photography as there is currently.But how do people deal with it when the world and its image merge?The filmmakers Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer show how quickly and profoundly the way we deal with images is changing.
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- Craft · Drama · Tension
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Since time immemorial, we have used images to form a picture of the world. But never before has there been as much filming and photography as there is currently. But how do people deal with it when the world and its image merge? The filmmakers Claus Wischmann and Martin Baer show how quickly and profoundly the way we deal with images is changing. Will we eventually move into a world in which reality and image can no longer be distinguished from each other?
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- Release date
- Apr 11, 2019
- Runtime
- 1h 24m
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- Language
- German, English
- Country
- Germany
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