Furtherfield published a great review of “Die Gstettensaga” by Stefan Lutschinger.
Very proud.
Die GstettenSaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl is an Austrian hackploitation art house film by Johannes Grenzfurthner, mastermind of the international art-technology-philosophy group monochrom, co-produced by the media collective Traum & Wahnsinn.
Reimagining the makerspace as grindhouse, the story is set in the
post-apocalyptic aftermath of the “Google Wars” – an armed global
conflict between the last two remaining superpowers China and Google –
which has turned what remained of the Alps into a Gstetten.[…]
The Gstettensaga’s fascinating cinematic pastiche is more than just a
firework of rhizomatic intertextuality, a symptom of the depthlessness
of postmodern aesthetics or excessive enthusiasm for experimentation in
the field of form. In their infamous 1972 book Anti-Oedipus, Gilles
Deleuze and Félix Guattari have identified the technique of bricolage as
the characteristic mode of production under “schizophrenic” capitalism,
a facet triumphantly magnified by the filmmakers.