Shot spatially out of order on the Venice pier over the course of an entire year, Gary Beydler recomposed the footage in editing to make it proceed consistently forward in space, resulting in an intricate mixing up of chronology. Some cuts could represent a jump of months either forward or backward in time. The result is one of gauzy impressionism brought into vivid and breathtaking clarity. (Mark Toscano)
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Throbs
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Bertha’s Children
Five middle-aged siblings and their simple behaviours and declarations are intensely ordered and analyzed, rendering a powerfully unusual family film -
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The Divine Miracle
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Evolution of the Red Star
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A documentary revolutionary in its unconventionality, which, as a result, captures more about its subject (rock ‘n roll), and more vividly and emotion -
Death of the Gorilla
Peter Mays achieved these hypnotically dense and hallucinatory in-camera super-impositions shooting off the TV with colour filters, then edited the ma
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 1976
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
