The raw material used in Blow-Up comprises two shots from an old educational film about first aid: a man demonstrates mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a life-size dummy; the dummy's chest rises and falls. Fruhauf introduces this scene into his own métier, turning the "blow-up" metaphor into an image with a false bottom. With the aid of a digital photocopier, the strip of film was reduced in size to a narrow ribbon, and Blow-up shows this transformation in reverse.
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Siegfried A. Fruhauf Director
United States release October 18, 2000 · Produced in Austria
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Austria
Produced in
Languages
Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Austria · October 13, 2000
Premiere · Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival
United States · October 18, 2000
Premiere · Cinematexas International Short Film Festival
Greece
October 11, 2001 · Premiere · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Sweden
October 23, 2001 · Premiere · Uppsala International Short Film Festival
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