FILM SCREENING | JOHN COOK RETROSPECTIVE | LANGSAMER SOMMER (SLOW SUMMER)
The Austrian Cultural Forum and the Anthology Film Archives present a retrospective of John Cook, a key figure in Austrian cinema, whose films – several of which have recently been restored by the Austrian Film Museum – are virtually unknown in the U.S. The Canadian-born filmmaker almost single-handedly introduced a type of freewheeling auteur cinema in his adopted homeland, reminiscent of both Italian neorealism and the works of the French nouvelle vague.
Langsamer Sommer (Slow Summer)
German with English Subtitles, 1974-1976, 83 minutes, Super8mm-to-35mm.
“[A]n easy-flowing, unpretentiously complex ‘diary movie’ puzzle about the strange (love) lives of Cook, his friendships and petty feuds with other artists (everybody plays ‘themselves’), the magic of warm beer and languorous summer afternoons, and especially the way light falls and people move through Vienna’s maze of streets in the early 1970s. … Privately financed, cheaply shot on Super-8 and blown up to 35mm, and drawn toward the supposedly insignificant, which becomes mysterious and beautiful, [it] is the quintessential expression of Cook’s drifter spirit. The film was compared to the private filmmaking of Jean Eustache and other great contemporaries, but actually it was (and still is) sui generis.” – MOVING IMAGE SOURCE
John Cook (1935 – 2001) was a Toronto-born Austrian director. Cook lived and worked in Europe for most of his life and often referred to himself as “Viennese by choice,” having moved to Austria in the late 1960s after a career in commercial photography in Paris. Despite his short filmography, Cook is considered a crucial figure in Austrian cinema.
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