A slightly hypnotic and open-ended parable about coming of age in a shifty world of slipping terms. Gleaned from optically printed fragments of a home market movie about a chimpanzee’s high adventures at Coney Island.
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Glint
About the start of disappearance, hand developed in Phil Hoffman’s Independent Imaging Retreat.
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Short: Starting from Scratch
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Water Pulu 1869 1896
This water polo match gives an entirely new meaning to ‘keeping your eye on the ball’.
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Short: Starting from Scratch
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Kristallnacht
Lyrical and sensual black & white film for Anne Frank, bordering on abstraction.
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Short: Starting from Scratch
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Necrology
‘Without doubt, the sickest joke I’ve ever seen on film’ (Hollis Frampton).
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Short: Starting from Scratch
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Astor Place
The unwritten choreography of the street, filmed at 48 frames a second.
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Short: Starting from Scratch
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Passage of the Bride
Ready-made of wedding films, dedicated to Rrose Sélavy, the alter ego of Marcel Duchamp.
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Short: Starting from Scratch
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1996
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 13"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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