Test Pictures
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
A 1975 New Zealand experimental film depicts the breakdown of a rural commune through eleven short scenes about a relationship. It was filmed on location with a small budget and volunteer crew who lived together while making it.
experimentalbroodingfragmentarybleaklow-keyunsettlingstripped-downdocumentary-like
What happens
Test Pictures, subtitled Eleven Vignettes from a Relationship, is a 1975 New Zealand experimental film showing the failure of a rural commune. It had it's world premiere at the Wellington Film Festival. Test Pictures was filmed at Hinge Estate in Huia in 1973 with a budget of $14,000. Cast and crew worked for free and lived communally on site. In order to screen the film the Wellington Film Society paid $500 to create a screening print which was shown at their Wellington Film Festival. It was then screened at the Auckland International Film Festival in July. Director Geoff Stevens says that the audiences were left "perplexed" by the film. A screening at Iran's ABU-SHIRAZ Film Maker's Festival followed later that year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.