Adria Holiday Films 1954-68 (Film–School of Seeing I)

Adria is a scientifically exhilarating analysis of the vacation film that is concerned with a naive mode of looking – in some cases more revealing than masterful
filmmaking. Deutsch pursues what the anonymous traveler considers memorable and discovers remarkable regularities, an optical recidivism when it comes to filming architecture, family and leisure time: Adria is a pure foundfootage film, characteristically systematic, organized according to camera movements.

(Stefan Grissemann)


When working with the historical remnants of daily routine, there is a great temptation to overemphasize their curiosity value. In Deutsch´s case, comical sequences and unintentional peculiarities can be found, however they are not...