Glossary of Broken Dreams

2018
1h 39m

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

7.1K

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Trailer for GLOSSARY OF BROKEN DREAMS by Johannes Grenzfurthner.
Voice-over by Eric Hollaway.

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GLOSSARY OF BROKEN DREAMS
A film paved with good intentions
By Johannes Grenzfurthner

Puppets! Pixels! Anime! Live action! Stock footage!
Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom! Privacy! Identity! Resistance! The Market! The Left! But, yikes, Johannes can't tolerate ignorant and topically abusive comments on the "Internet" anymore! Supported by writer Ishan Raval, in this film, Johannes explains, re-evaluates, and sometimes sacrifices political golden calves of discourse.
Not to be used with false consciousness or silicone-based lubricant.

Featuring: Amber Benson, Max Grodénchik, Jeff Ricketts, Jason Scott, Stefanie Sargnagel, Gerald Votava, Robert Stachel, Stuart Freeman, Katharina Stemberger, Conny Lee, Jolyne Schlien Schürmann, Hannes Duscher, Roland Gratzer, Alexander E. Fennon, Michael J. Epstein, Michael Smulik, Kudra Owens, Martin Auer, David Dempsey, Anna Behne... and many others.

Runtime: 98 minutes.
Color and B/W.

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Puppets. Pixels. Anime. Live action. Stock footage. - Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about fre... Read allPuppets. Pixels. Anime. Live action. Stock footage. - Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom. Privacy. Identity. Resistance. The Market. The Left. But, yikes, Johannes can't tole... Read allPuppets. Pixels. Anime. Live action. Stock footage. - Lumpennerd Johannes Grenzfurthner gives an ideotaining cinematic revue about important political concepts. Everyone is talking about freedom. Privacy. Identity. Resistance. The Market. The Left. But, yikes, Johannes can't tolerate ignorant and topically abusive comments on the "Internet" anymore. Supported by write... Read all

Director
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
Writers
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
- Ishan Raval
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

5.7/10

7.1K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
Writers
- Johannes Grenzfurthner
- Ishan Raval
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 8 wins & 2 nominations total

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9romantic-gorn

glossary of broken modernity

I think this is a very important movie and should reach as many people as possible. self-reflective hyper-modernity at its best.

8GOD1zilla

A set of tools

It was Mark Fisher who pointed out that capitalist reality always needs a certain level of anti-capitalism to become tolerable. This film definitely gets into your head, it tackles some of your inner beliefs, yet, of course, it cannot fundamentally change anything. Critique is its own category, its own precious thing. It simply shows us what's wrong, even gives a couple of suggestions what we could do better, but in the end, political critique is nothing more than a friendly invitation. You accept it, or you don't. Either way, after watching Glossary of Broken Dreams you will have learned a lot. What you do with your new mental tools is up to you.

8anton-korngold

Hilarious

Shameless plug for the Glossary of Broken Dreams, which I saw last night. Deleuze, Latour, Marx, Foucault and loads more but my favorite was the scene where the American President explains the Global Economy and Labour Economics with green slime.

8Velocerix

Very enjoyable buffer overflow!

I saw GOBD at the Vermont International Film Festival. Loved every overbearing second of it. I'd call it a braindump on stages of disappointments with persistent political ideologies. Being embedded deeply in leftist, political nerd culture, the movie tries to address topics in depth, and as the filmmaker stated in the Q&A, he couldn't have dumbed it down further. It's also a marvelous trip through film styles and packed with popcultural inside jokes. Buffer overflow! (Can't believe I'm giving a doc with a political agenda 8 stars. I've never done that before! I usually like films about animals!)

8iamthefanbase

Be warned

Not a classic documentary. Very unsual combination of political comedy and high-level academic theory. Sounds strange, is strange, but I couldn't stop watching. "Monty Python" plus "The Big Short" plus "Muppets."

I, for one, welcome our new socialist overlords.