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Now something is slowly changing (mint film office, 2018)
🕑 Added 2019-03-02 04:28:19 +0000 UTC
Just a brief note on this one, since I turned it off at the 45 minute mark (with an hour left). This film is a highly objective, deeply unprejudiced look at "coaching" culture, from business retreats to personal-objective achievement seminars to YouTube ASMR channels. Portions of these scenes and environments are presented in seemingly modular fashion, with no obvious build or argument. Formally, the film resembles the frontal, planimetric style of Ulrich Seidl, and thematically it calls to mind such Harun Farocki works as Interview and How to Live in the FRG. But Now something exhibits none of the aesthetic interest value of either of those makers. In fact, this film feels eerily dead, which may be the point, but does not improve the viewing experience one iota.
