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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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