Accelerando

A cinematic essay about the analytical power of utopias as depicted in early documentary films and political pamphlets centering on excerpts of Fabrik Poldihütte 1916 a fragment of an early Austrian sponsored film about Karl Wittgensteins steel factory the British documentary and propaganda film The Battle of the Somme 1916 the reactionary modernist nazi propaganda film Metall des Himmels 1935 Walter Ruttmann and the text Europes Optical Illusion 1909 British pacifist Norman Angells pamphlet about the Great Illusion that war and military action can help maintain the status of countries in the economically civilized world