A rapturous audiovisual mix that `deliberately seeks a hidden order in randomness.’ The film combines the face of a woman in ecstatic, contemplative prayer with shots of an animal rights activist, and a scantily clad model advertising Russian cars at the International Auto Show in New York.
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The Film that Rises to the Surface of Clarified Butter
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New Improved Institutional Quality: In the Environment of Liquids and Nasals a .
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Diploteratology
A revision of Bardo Follies, subtitled `the study of newly formed monstrosities’. Its images represent visual phenomena seen during a passage
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A Film of Their 1973 Spring Tour Commissioned by Christian World Liberation Front
A radical Christian group’s lecture tour of US colleges was filmed in the cinema vérité style, with hand-held camera, sync and wild sound. To
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Wide Angle Saxon
An interpretation of The Confessions of Saint Augustine, featuring an ordinary middle-aged man who undergoes a conversion experience while watching
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“No Sir, Orison!”
After singing a vivacious song of love in the aisle of a supermarket, the performer kneels down to ask forgiveness for those involved in the commer
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1973
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2005
- Length
- 6"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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