The second in a trilogy, it is less a psychodrama and more a sad sweet song of youth and death, of boyhood and manhood and our tender earth. (ND)
Forgetting its ‘psychological plot’, this film is a fine exponent of the intrinsic magical power of cinema. Its images, which evolve in a rather unmagical sober suburb, are continually transcended and manipulated into a kind of epic haiku of superimpositions and textural weavings. (Jerome Hiler)
Also in this combined programme
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Arbor Vitae
Film shows insight into the metaphysical coherence of life, gives existence a soul like the tree of life.
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Alaya
Enchanting, minimalist film consisting solely of grains of sand, which act as hyperboles for the constituents of celluloid images: film grain.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1964
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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