Condition of Illusion (1975)

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Tiempo de ejecución : 32M

Director : Peter Gidal

Sinopsis

The practice of Structural/Materialist Film is defined in...process, construction, displaced reflexively...not displaced uniformly into the pattern of a narrative bound up for the stable subject-centred image. Structural/Materialist film has no place for the look, ceaselessly displaced, outphased, a problem of seeing, it is anti-voyeuristic.

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Peter Gidal
Peter Gidal
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