Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory

2009 en 27 minutes

Rating: 0

Plot

Charlie Marx and the Chocolate Factory started as an investigation of the link between politics and chocolate, at the Karl Marx Confectionary Factory in Kiev, Ukraine. Since access to the factory was denied, the project had to be re-considered, re-invented or re-enacted. Mostly made of archival footage and re-enacted performances based on the company's website, the film merges what was left of the initial idea with what has been collected and realized instead. It borrows from the genres of video art, 'Man on the street' interview, direct address, corporate film, essay, and music video, without legitimately belonging to any of them. The film unravels as a reflection on its own failure, and yet keeps on investigating what has always been at stake: the shift from public to private property (and from analog to digital technology), dialectics of permanence and change, language as a mirror of ideology, and post-Soviet oligarchy culture.

Trailer

Trailer's not available.

Cast

Similar Movies

Flying Supersonic

Flying Supersonic

fr

May 17, 2018

The Red Elvis

The Red Elvis

de

February 13, 2007

Mario y los perros

Mario y los perros

es

June 27, 2019

Megacities

Megacities

en

August 12, 1998

Machines

Machines

hi

November 30, 2017

Pif, Behind the gimmicks

Pif, Behind the gimmicks

fr

January 31, 2015

Žižek!

Žižek!

en

November 18, 2005

Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes

en

September 9, 2006

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

ru

May 12, 1929

Kymatica

Kymatica

en

February 1, 2009

Napalm

Napalm

fr

September 6, 2017

1944. Deportation

1944. Deportation

uk

May 17, 2019