Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Julian Radlmaier's Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from January 12 - February 11, 2018 as a Special Discovery.Personnel is being hired for the Theater in Oklahoma! The great Theater of Oklahoma is calling you!—Amerika, Franz Kafka “But how can we know we’re in communism?”—Camille, Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois DogSpecters haunt: class society, the ghost of Mayakovsky, the Soviet avant-garde. Julian Radlmaier’s filmography has thus far demonstrated a fixation with the terminology, the iconography—and the names, and the reference points—of a Marxist culture at once sacred, dogmatic, malleable, popular, misquoted, bastardized, mocked. The German filmmaker foregrounds his referential framework (two medium-length efforts preceded this one: 2012’s A Specter Is Haunting Europe and 2014’s A Proletarian Winter’s Tale) as if to simultaneously goad and warn his audience.
- 1/11/2018
- MUBI
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