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
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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