A timely film about EU top dog Hans Tietmeyer, a German economist, is the latest slippery biopic from the Irish artist, whose past subjects include car-making conman John DeLorean
"I'm not putting this accurately, but approximately," explains the apologetically unreliable narrator in Duncan Campbell's latest documentary, Arbeit, hinged around the influential German economist Hans Tietmeyer. The same might be said for all the Irish artist's slippery biopics, which have tackled such fiery characters as Irish republican Bernadette Devlin, who once punched a Tory home secretary in the face for suggesting British soldiers had only fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday, and John DeLorean, the dashing but dastardly entrepreneur behind the eponymous sports car that took Michael J Fox back to the future.
With old newsreels, photography and commercials, Campbell builds contrary tales of people, time and place, in which the picture is forever shifting depending on who is holding the camera.
"I'm not putting this accurately, but approximately," explains the apologetically unreliable narrator in Duncan Campbell's latest documentary, Arbeit, hinged around the influential German economist Hans Tietmeyer. The same might be said for all the Irish artist's slippery biopics, which have tackled such fiery characters as Irish republican Bernadette Devlin, who once punched a Tory home secretary in the face for suggesting British soldiers had only fired in self-defence on Bloody Sunday, and John DeLorean, the dashing but dastardly entrepreneur behind the eponymous sports car that took Michael J Fox back to the future.
With old newsreels, photography and commercials, Campbell builds contrary tales of people, time and place, in which the picture is forever shifting depending on who is holding the camera.
- 11/10/2011
- by Skye Sherwin
- The Guardian - Film News
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