In 1973, Altman’s The Long Goodbye was a total flop. Film archivist Lampert serendipitously purchased a Spanish version online and, with a strong sense of professional self-irony, returned this 16mm, black-and-white, cropped, dubbed print back to its original 35mm, colour, widescreen, English-language splendor. See also G Is the Dial in this compilation programme.
Also in this combined programme
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Experiments in Buoyancy
Digital images are rephotographed and animated frame by frame to explore hypothetical forms of decay. All the images suggest a feeling of gravity.<
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The Emblazoned Apparitions
In this hommage to the end of cinema, disintegrating slapstick footage is haunted by the voices of Thomas Edison and Harry Houdini.
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Doorway for Natalie Kalmus
Close-ups of a technicolour instrument in a laboratory build up to form a kaleidoscopic ballet. Abstract flashes of light lead to a mystic experien
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Handful of Dust
Revisiting a canyon where John Wayne fought the Indians in 1954, the filmmaker finds nuclear radiation at this former above-ground testing site.
A Third Version of the Imaginary
A peek behinds the scenes at the film library of the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation in Nairobi leads to a meditation on the Swahili word for image.
G Is the Dial
Two young women from Leeds face a mysterious object on their kitchen table, and try to make it function.
ELSA merdelamerdelamer
This suggestive experiment was inspired by Man Ray’s and Duchamp’s lost film of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven shaving her pubic hair.
The Dark Galleries
Provost creates a fascinating hall of mirrors through a splendid montage of film noir scenes, in which the actors face a painted portrait. Also see
Film details
- Countries of production
- Mexico, USA
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 11"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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