U.S. THEATRICAL PREMIERE RUN!

Special thanks to Martin Rauchbauer & Julia Huber (Austrian Cultural Forum NY), Ralph McKay & Michaela Grill (Sixpack Film), and Wilbirg Brainin-Donnenberg.

As part of our ongoing collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum NY, Anthology presents a week-long run of FILM IST. a girl & a gun, the culmination of Gustav Deutsch’s breathtakingly ambitious series of found-footage works. Scouring moving image archives throughout the world, Deutsch has assembled a vast collection of silent-film imagery, much of it buried in archival vaults for decades. From this incredible range of material, Deutsch has composed a highly suggestive, quasi-narrative, but essentially enigmatic mosaic which demonstrates both the wealth of fascinating early-20th-century documentation bequeathed to us from the silent era, as well as the sheer diversity of human experience reflected through the cinema.

“[FILM IST.] weaves together a stunning array of color-tinted images from a variety of genres, including scientific, erotic, fiction, and actuality films. Deutsch also obtained privileged access to the film archives of the Kinsey Institute, enabling him to incorporate sequences from especially rare erotic and sex films into his latest oeuvre. … Within [the film’s] narrative construction, the director creates a stunning vision of the natural and mythological order of the universe, love between the sexes, and weapons of mass destruction.” –Jon Gartenberg, TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL