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Easter Morning

Easter Morning

Bruce Conner | USA | 2008 | 10' |

| IFFR 2009

Conner’s freewheeling camera chases morning light in a hypnotic blur of colour and multiple exposures. This is his last completed film, derived from the 8mm footage of Easter Morning Raga (1966). Originally shown with a Beatles soundtrack, the film was never released. Conner reset the earlier material to a version of Terry Riley’s In C (1964) recorded by the Shanghai Film Orchestra in 1989. This shift in timbre beautifully matches the radiance of this optical poem. (Mark McElhatten)

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