A haunting, affecting three-minute epic constructed of memorable images and densely imagined narrative fragments distilled to an essence that registers dread, dissolution, fear and despair, but also a bittersweet melancholy, both for an idealised past and a diseased present. (Mark Toscano)
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Death of the Gorilla
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Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1966
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 3'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
