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EdgeCode: (Post) Modern Times

Name: EdgeCode: (Post) Modern Times
Duration: 5 min

Brian Johnson

2006 | 5 min

This short experimental film riffs on the conventions of silent cinema by examining Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times within the context of postmodern culture. It explores an integrated relationship between music and cinematic structure in response to the perceived shortcomings of postmodernism.

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director

Brian Johnson
producer

Svend-Erik Eriksen

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