Conner’s landmark collage film A Movie is a landmine comprised of fragments of newsreels films, erotic films, sporting events, ‘military adventures’ and other human follies. From the countdown leader to the countdown to courted disaster, it catches our marathon Totentanz and death wish in its cross hairs.
Also in this combined programme
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Pull My Daisy
The intelligent, spontaneous spirit of the Beat Generation on top form. -
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Flaming Creatures
One of the most famous and notorious underground films from American film history: a decadent, exotic and exuberant feast. -
Sirius Remembered
Sweeping camera movements by avant-garde film master Brakhage around a dead dog. -
Anamnesis
A master does not need any proof of skill. Not even any finger exercises. He makes masterful exercises in a cinematographic idiom that he invented… -
Lune
Atmospheric study of faces, motions and the character of (photographic) light.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1958
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2006
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
