No, your computer isn’t possessed by gremlins (but how awesome would that be?). This 1993 short film experiment, "Passage à l’acte," by Austrian avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold, manipulates an otherwise brief scene, relatively unimportant to the main plot, from the classic "To Kill a Mockingbird." The film, which repeats almost every second from the scene a couple hundred times before moving onto the next, is described by The Seventh as, "a stuttering nightmare vision of turmoil underlying a conventional 1950s American family." However, just like any avant-garde art, the context lies in the eye of the viewer, so have fun coming up with your own interpretation of what this all means to you. In a purely technical sense, the film is quite an achievement, as long as we keep in mind that it was made in 1993. Nowadays, a kid on iMovie could pull this off in ten minutes. But...
- 8/25/2014
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