When Francois Truffaut remarked that every director is condemned to remake their first film again and again, he might have been naming the project of Frank Cole. In Frank’s first short film, made at Algonquin College, he brings a terrifying mixture of intimacy and distance to bear on his aging grandparents.
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The Mountenays
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The Man Who Crossed the Sahara
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Film details
- Country of production
- Canada
- Year
- 1979
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 8"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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