Blues

You think films today are slow and minimal? Get back to the pure avant-garde with Larry Gottheim’s silent, single-take record of a bowl of blueberries in milk disappearing. Light, colour, action, time – all the essential elements of cinema are here. He has said it’s his “first real film; all the others rise out of this one.” Hang on for the dazzling shock ending, courtesy of the end of the camera reel.

 

– Adrian Martin