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| A Movie | |
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| Directed by | Bruce Conner |
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Running time | 12 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Movie (stylized as A MOVIE) is a 1958 experimental collage film by Bruce Conner consisting of found footage taken from B-movies, newsreels, soft-core pornography, novelty short films, and other sources set to a musical score featuring Ottorino Respighi's Pines of Rome.
The film is associational, in which a number of narrative and spatially unrelated shots from a number of sources are edited together to evoke emotions and make thematic points. A Movie consists of many shots of animals and people moving quickly, precariously balanced objects, cars and people crashing, and, perhaps most importantly, violence and war. The word 'movie' keeps showing up on the screen.
In 1994, A Movie was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Since 2013 the work is a part of permanent exposition in Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Synopsis
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[edit]- http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews/oral-history-interview-bruce-conner-12989
- https://www.loc.gov/programs/static/national-film-preservation-board/documents/movie.pdf
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[edit]On November 14, 1994, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[1][2]
External links
[edit]- ^ "25 Films Added to National Registry". The New York Times. November 15, 1994. Retrieved September 19, 2016.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ D'Ooge, Craig (November 14, 1994). "Librarian of Congress Names 25 More Films to National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved September 19, 2016.