Accidence (2018)

Directed by

Guy Maddin

Genre

mystery, crime

Country

Canada

Runtime

9 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A single nine-minute continuous shot shows the balconies of an apartment block. The camera observes the small and large events happening there.

staticobservationalfocusedslice-of-lifequietcontrolledminimalistmundane

What happens

Accidence is a Canadian short drama film, directed by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, and released in 2018. The film, a continuous nine-minute shot, focuses on an apartment block and depicts the diverse events, both major and minor, taking place on balconies. The film premiered at the 2018 Berlin Film Festival, as an accompaniment to a screening of his 2017 feature film The Green Fog. It had its North American premiere at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. The film was named to TIFF's annual year-end Canada's Top Ten list for 2018. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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