Notfilm (2015)
- Directed by
- Ross Lipman
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 2h 09m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 5.0 of 10 from 6 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
This documentary explores the making of Samuel Beckett's only film, a short starring Buster Keaton. The director uses newly discovered footage and audio to examine Beckett's creative process and personal motivations.
measuredinquisitiveanalyticalreflectivecerebralscholarlycontemplative
What happens
Notfilm is a 2015 feature-length documentary, directed by Ross Lipman on the production of playwright Samuel Beckett's only film, an experimental short titled Film starring Buster Keaton. While conducting preliminary research to restore Film, filmmaker and restorationist Ross Lipman visited Grove Press founder and Film producer Barney Rosset at his apartment, where Lipman discovered reels of film and audio. This material contained outtakes from Beckett's 1965 production, including a prologue long-thought lost. Notfilm reconstructs this prologue and integrates rare audio of Beckett's voice, surreptitiously recorded by Rosset, in a self-described "Kino Essay" that analyzes the philosophical foundation of Film, arguing it was an expression of Samuel Beckett's own distaste for the public eye. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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