The Screen, Just the Screen (1978)

Original title

Schermo-Schermo

Directed by

Paolo Gioli

Runtime

24 min

How it feels

A fixed camera records a screen being bombarded by film frames. Multiple projectors play loops of everyday scenes that speed up and slow down. The result is a portrait of the screen as a freezer of images, with a televised face punctured by a smaller film screen.

experimentalfragmentedmeditativerepetitiveself-reflexivetime-bendingcerebralstructural

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