A hall of mirrors without the mirrors. The willing portrait sitters who pay curbside artists to sketch quick commissions find themselves immortalized on film and in a cross cutting ricochet with their own image of flesh, paper and emulsion.
Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Also in this combined programme
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New Left Note
Levine’s incessant, chaotic outpouring of political energy seems less geared to a naive notion of bettering the world than to a perpetual pressure to -
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The Big Stick / An Old Reel
This film intercuts two Charlie Chaplin shorts centring on policemen with newsreel footage of police crowd control and street fighting.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1974
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2007
- Length
- 5'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
