{"id":64,"date":"2011-08-21T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T01:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/?p=64"},"modified":"2012-02-06T22:14:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T21:14:09","slug":"the-pettifogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/2011\/08\/21\/the-pettifogger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pettifogger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Klahr-Pettifogger-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73\" title=\"Lewis Klahr: The Pettifogger\" src=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Klahr-Pettifogger-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Klahr-Pettifogger-3.jpg 435w, https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Klahr-Pettifogger-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday 23 October 2011, at 7pm, NFT3<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Pettifogger<\/strong><br \/>\nLewis Klahr | USA 2011 | 65 min<br \/>\nThe first feature-length work by Lewis Klahr takes a unique approach to a familiar genre. Ostensibly a thriller that traces events in the life of an American gambler and con man circa 1963,<em> The Pettifogger<\/em> is described by the filmmaker as \u2018an abstract crime film and, like many other crime films involving larceny, a sensorial exploration of the virulence of unfettered capitalism.\u2019 Characters lifted from comic books move through an impressionistic landscape of textures, photographs and drawings, populating a story whose narrative is suggested but not strongly defined. Employing a range of iconography and appropriated audio to expand his signature style of collage animation, Klahr recycles symbols of popular culture to address themes of the loss of innocence and the irresistible allure of wealth. <strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>April Snow<\/strong><br \/>\nLewis Klahr | USA 2010 | 10min<br \/>\nA love story about cars and girls, carried away by songs from the Shangri-La\u2019s and The Boss.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mark Webber<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also screening:<\/strong><br \/>\nTuesday 25 October 2011, at 7pm, STUDIO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday 23 October 2011, at 7pm, NFT3 The Pettifogger Lewis Klahr | USA 2011 | 65 min The first feature-length work by Lewis Klahr takes a unique approach to a familiar genre. Ostensibly a thriller that traces events in the life of an American gambler and con man circa 1963, The Pettifogger is described by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[36,8,14,17,29,16],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-weekend","tag-36","tag-8","tag-films","tag-lewis-klahr","tag-lff-2011","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/experimenta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}