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Presents (1981)

Presents poster
Directed by
Michael Snow
Genre
fantasy
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 39m
Rating
6.6 of 10 from 7 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A film begins with a scratch in the celluloid that opens into another film. A woman wakes up in a fake set, and the set itself moves instead of the camera. The camera later invades the set and crushes objects, then pushes through a wall into rapid shots that mimic natural vision, with a drumbeat marking each edit.

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