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Falling is a transition. It is a movement from one position to another. Creation, love and death are also falling. This film shows a singular object - the Boeing 707-700 4X-JYI airplane, in this process of falling. The airplane was first acquired by film director Howard Hughes for TWA, which then flew for the Israeli Airforce before it was blown up for the Hollywood blockbuster, Speed. With each clip and interview rewriting what has gone before, the film folds in on itself, but in a developing, not diminishing, manner. Film seamlessly sews tropes of economy, spectacle and crash into this complex narrative that works to reveal the cycles of capitalism as it engulfs and morphs the ever-changing status of commodity.

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