Seeing in the Rain (1981)
Genre : Documentary
Runtime : 11M
Director : Chris Gallagher
Synopsis
Photographed through the windshield of a Vancouver city bus and edited according to the rhythms of the bus' windshield wiper, the film transforms the linear narrative of the bus ride into a temporal construction that can be described as cubist. The effect of the cutting strategy on the actual temporal organization of the film is as remarkable as its effect on our sense of time.
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