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Pneuma (1983)

Pneuma poster
Directed by
Nathaniel Dorsky
Country
United States of America
Runtime
28 min
Rating
4.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a short film that shows the patterns of grain on undeveloped movie film. There are no people or story. The camera simply looks at the texture and movement of light on the film surface.

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What happens

Pneuma is a 1983 American avant-garde short film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It captures grain patterns from unexposed film stocks. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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