One Hundred Years Later

Christoph Girardet

Germany / 2025 / Experimental / 7’55”I2602232

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SYNOPSIS

The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here (A.L.,1863) In 1939, a second unit with a double and extras filmed scenes for the Hollywood classic “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” in the Lincoln Memorial. The succession of the sorted-out plan sequences undermines the usual cinematic narration; the plot does not progress here. The neoclassical architecture is merely the setting for a recurring ritual: The inconspicuous protagonist is lost between the pillars of the hall. He often pauses in the face of the monumental Lincoln, as if he himself were freezing into a sculpture.

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