NFB Collection
EdgeCode: (Post) Modern Times
20065 min 50 secFilm: Experimental
Direction: Brian Johnson
Production: Svend-Erik Eriksen
Co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada and Cineworks Independant Film & Video Society.
Riffing on the conventions of silent cinema, Brian Johnson's (Post) Modern Times examines one of the era's masterpieces - Chaplin's Modern Times - in the context of postmodern culture. The film responds to perceived shortcomings of postmodernism by exploring an integrated relationship between music and cinematic structure.
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Subject categories
- Film and Video Arts > Experimentation
Credits
- director
- Brian Johnson
- producer
- Svend-Erik Eriksen