San Francisco (1968)

Directed by

Anthony Stern

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

15 min

Rating

5.3 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary captures fast-cut images of 1960s San Francisco life set to music by Pink Floyd. It uses single frame cinematography to create a fragmented and hypnotic view of the city.

impressionisticpsychedelicdreamlikerhythmicexperimentalvisually inventiveuptempoatmospheric

What happens

San Francisco is a 1968 impressionistic documentary short film directed by Anthony Stern. The film, cut to a version of "Interstellar Overdrive" as performed by Pink Floyd in 1966, pioneered the use of 16mm single frame cinematography in the late 1960s. The film was produced by the British Film Institute (BFI) and by Iris Sawyer, Jeremy Mitchell, and Alan Callan. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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