:: loos - the movie ::

I finally got hold of the Loos-movie DVD: the name "Loos Ornamental" sounded so promising, sadly the movie is just plain crap. Not enough it's sexist too, the only information we get about Loos is his dad's job - his mum is obviously absolutely unimportant. The movie is boring and bieder. The shots of the buildings look arbitrary and are not well selected, the few good shots seem to be not more than lucky accidents. The angle of the camera is almost never straight, making it often hard to understand the orientation of the spaces - again just giving the feeling of an amateur taking pictures of architecture for the first time.

The only good part is the in extra section of the DVD menu - a professional voice reads "Ornament and Crime" from 1908 to a picture of some random floor painting out of some random renaissance church. Besides Loos' pseudo scientific augmentations the text is very surprising and offers some clear insights that seem to reflect the time very well.