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. -
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. -
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 experience. -
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… -
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