Peter Whitehead – Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts (2009)

Adapting its title and theme from Thomas De Quincey’s murder text, this long-overdue return to narrative cinema by the great British filmmaker Peter Whitehead is based around a mesmerising psycho-geographical exploration of modern day Vienna. The film incorporates a record of the subversive underbelly of the city into a poetic meditation on conspiracy theory, ecoterrorism, time and cinema, retracing the story of The Third Man. Adapted from a trilogy of Whitehead’s own Nohzone novels, the objective and subjective becomes blurred as the film director merges with the fictional detective in a journey into the murky activities of covert counter-insurgency groups. Kaleidoscopic in intent, the film mixes Noh theatre, Victorian novels, Vienna after the war, opium, domain names and Jacob’s ladder “pitched twixt Heaven and Charring Cross”.

Terrorism Considered As One of the Fine Arts.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	2h 34mn
Size: 	2.34 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	720x576 ~> 1024x576
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	1 966 Kbps
BPP: 	0.190
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

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