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World on a wire
Title
World on a wire.
Publication
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 212 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Title from title frames.
Originally produced by Criterion Collection/Janus Films in 1973.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
World on a wire is a gloriously paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the future from German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder. With dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick, Fassbinder tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant hero Fred Stiller (Klaus Löwitsch), a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy. At risk? (Virtual) reality as we know it. Originally made for German television, this recently rediscovered, three-and-a-half-hour labyrinth is a satiric and surreal look at the world of tomorrow from one of cinema's kinkiest geniuses.
Variant and related titles
Kanopy Criterion collection.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
German
Added to Catalog
September 15, 2023
Publisher's number
1113525 Kanopy
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Documentary films.
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