Christoph Hemmerling

A German TV movie

Adaptation of the novel "Bartleby the Scrinener: A story of Wall Street" (1853) by Hermann Melville.

Astronaut Mulligan sets out to find a mysterious planet.

The film depicts, in an anecdotal, quasi-anthropological style, the efforts of a group of men in a desert to achieve some kind of social organisation. An opening title locates the action in Morocco, in 1911, the date evidently refers to the work of D.W. Griffith.

The drawings on which the series is based were created in 1969 and served as a template for a slide series in 1970. During its screening, this is interrupted by the film "Percy McPhee Agent of Horror (6th + 7th episode)".

The movements, routines and gestures that compose an ordinary day in the life of an ordinary housewife, recorded in the minutest every more oppressive details, become a sort of catalyst by the unique and simple means of having the woman played by a man with long hair and a slightly androgynous look.