Aus der Zeit (Out of Time): German Film by Harald Friedl

4/20/2007

101 Moffitt

April 20th, 101 Moffitt: Aus der Zeit / Out of Time (2006) Special Film Screening followed by a Q&A session with the director!!!! Harald Friedl (http://www.haraldfriedl.com) will be showing his new documentary film, "Out of Time" ("Aus der Zeit," 2006). The film is a painfully, tenderly funny portrait of a dying breed: the independent family store owners in Vienna. Under the pretext of filming a megalopolis, “Berlin, Symphony of a Big City” extolled the hectic rhythm of machines, the accelerating circulation of goods and messages: the automated world of the future. Almost eighty years on, in a Europe, where economic prudence is becoming the rule, where "big" either eclipses or absorbs "small", "traditional" "Mom & Pop" shops are vanishing at an alarming rate. “Out of Time” is a documentary about four of this dying breed of small local shops: a butcher shop, a drug store, a leatherwear shop and a button shop. By the end of the film only one of these shops will have survived. Silently observed by the camera, the film unfolds as a portrayal about memories, relationships, working conditions, love, loneliness and the passing of time.