21-87 (1963)

Directed by

Arthur Lipsett

Genre

collage film

Country

Canada

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 30 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A nine minute collage film made from discarded footage and the filmmaker's own black and white shots of city streets. It assembles random images and sounds into a fast moving, disjointed sequence.

abstractfreneticsurrealdisorientingfragmentedthought-provokingatmosphericexperimental

What happens

21-87 is a 1963 Canadian abstract montage-collage film created by Arthur Lipsett that lasts 9 minutes and 33 seconds. The short, produced by the National Film Board of Canada, is a collage of snippets from discarded footage found by Lipsett in the editing room of the National Film Board (where he was employed as an animator), combined with his own black and white 16 mm footage which he shot on the streets of Montreal and New York City, among other locations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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