Although LA has appeared in more films than any other city, Thom Andersen believes that it has not been well served by these films. He became gradually obsessed with making a proper LA city symphony film, concentrating on small fragments of the cityscape: billboards, advertising signs, wall paintings, music fragments, building facades.
Also in this combined programme
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Possessed
Sequence with a passing train, passengers in motion and a woman standing still on the platform becomes a study of illusionary movements.
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Trypps #7 (Badlands)
Trypps #7 charts a young woman’s LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expan
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Coming Attractions
Coming Attractions humorously excavates the rhizomes of a mutual genealogy in the trinity of early cinema, avant-garde film and advertising.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2010
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 34"
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
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