Article on THINGS, Film & Heidegger.

Article focusing on our film THINGS under the paragraph Philosophizing Films:

“…Heidegger opens his essay, The Thing, with a sigh over how cinematography robs the world of the concept of distance and closeness and it contributes to the fact that everything is “all blended into a dull lack of any distance.” In contrast to this statement, the film, Things (2015), by Thomas A. Østbye shows how faithful cinema can be to the Heidegger projection. Østbye reveals the “thingness” of things in a range between closeness and distance even more convincingly and more literally (even without the use of words) than it ever could be done using Heidegger’s own somewhat strange and difficult method of poetic expression…”

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