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Black and White Trypps Number Four

Black and White Trypps Number Four

Ben Russell | USA | 2008 | 12' |

| IFFR 2008

‘Jesus Christ, look at the white people, rushing back. White people don’t care, Jack…’ Using a 35mm strip of motion picture slug featuring the recently deceased American comedian Richard Pryor, this extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickering chaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involving historically incompatible racial stereotypes.

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