以矛度夜

　　1942美国短片《以矛度夜》由约瑟夫·康奈尔导演，影片讲述的是：
A key figure of American surrealism Joseph Cornell is best known for his boxassemblages He was however also one of the most original and outstanding filmmakers to emerge from the Surrealist movement Reclusive in nature and resistant to public screenings during his lifetime his filmic work is little known despite bearing a deep and lasting influence on the wor...[显示全部]ld of avant garde filmmaking
By Night With Torch and Spear is composed of foundfootage of industrial processes and of various indigenous groups of people Film clips have been manipulated in differing ways sometimes shown upsidedown other times played backward The work seems to be alluding to romantic myths of undoing industrialization and of celebrating the noble savage
A powerful product of its time it was created at the height of the WII faith in modernity and in the moral progress brought about by industrialization was collapsing prompting various escapist fantasies The fetishizing of preindustrial references in places where industry stops being the focal point of economic activity remains an important aspect of the aesthetics of contemporary consumption of today
quoted from 10th Shanghai Biennial 2014 by mecca