The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin
Directed by Jem Cohen31 december 2008 10mDokumentär
An homage to Walter Benjamin and other time-traveling artists and expatriates that have inspired me, especially Chris Marker. Benjamin, fleeing from fascism in the 1930s, took refuge in Paris where Biblioteque Nacional became his home away from home. In this library, a sanctuary made of books, he eventually left a secret copy of much of what remains of his Arcades Project, Das Passagen-Werk. Much of the narration for the film came from a chance operation or literary cut-up exercise done with Patti Smith, using dictionary definitions of the word "passage" which I later edited and augmented with text of my own. --Jem Cohen
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The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin was released on 31 december 2008.
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin was directed by Jem Cohen.
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin has a runtime of 10m.
An homage to Walter Benjamin and other time-traveling artists and expatriates that have inspired me, especially Chris Marker. Benjamin, fleeing from fascism in the 1930s, took refuge in Paris where Biblioteque Nacional became his home away from home. In this library, a sanctuary made of books, he eventually left a secret copy of much of what remains of his Arcades Project, Das Passagen-Werk. Much of the narration for the film came from a chance operation or literary cut-up exercise done with Patti Smith, using dictionary definitions of the word "passage" which I later edited and augmented with text of my own. --Jem Cohen
The key characters in The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin are Narrator (Patti Smith).
The Passage Clock: For Walter Benjamin is a Dokumentär film.