The Secret Cinema (1968)
- Directed by
- Paul Bartel
- Genre
- comedy
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 27 min
- Rating
- 5.3 of 10 from 20 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 woman begins to suspect that her friends and coworkers are secretly filming her life. She discovers they are actors directed by a filmmaker who screens the footage for an audience.
surrealunsettlingclaustrophobicparanoidlow-budgetvisually starkabsurdistmanipulative
What happens
The Secret Cinema is a short black-and-white film produced, written, and directed by Paul Bartel, and released in 1966, gaining somewhat wider distribution in 1968. The film is about a woman who is manipulated by people around her so a director can film her to screen the results in a theater. The film is described as voyeuristic or surveillance film, though obviously staged. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Secrets (1968)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.