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The Amateurist<\/em> (1998, Miranda July)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miranda 1 “the professsional” is presenting her work on Miranda 2 “the amateur” to the viewer. I think 1 transmits numbers and patterns to 2, who paces a cell, reacting with hostility to these communications, while 1 watches lovingly. “A portrait of a woman on the brink of technology-induced madness”<\/p>\n

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\nPioneer<\/em> (2011, David Lowery)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another single-room two-person short. Will Oldham is an ageless man telling his stepson a bedtime story about how the boy was kidnapped and sought for over a hundred years, only to mysteriously reappear.<\/p>\n

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\nSaute ma ville<\/em> (1968, Chantal Akerman)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whoa… teenage Chantal comes home, eats dinner, tosses the cat out the window, cleans the apartment, then kills herself on the stove. Jeanne Dielman<\/a><\/em> in miniature – with less technical mastery, replaced with a playful sense of anarchy, extended to the dubbing (she sings in voiceover when not singing onscreen, and when lighting a match, the sound effect is a voice saying “scrrratch”). Watching the doc later, she calls it “the mirror image of Jeanne Dielman<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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\nAsparagus<\/em> (1979, Suzan Pitt)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Up there with Lynch in terms of having the most warped ideas and having the technical chops to get them onscreen. This is the height of color and form\/space\/scale weirdness while still maintaining some vague narrative trajectory, accompanied by bent spooky music, then it hits new heights when our heroine leaves the house (putting on a mask first, much appreciated), sneaks into a theater and unleashes her phantasmagoric cel-animated phallic-symbol madness on an unsuspecting stop-motion audience. A masterpiece, filmed from 1974 to 1978.<\/p>\n

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\nAtlantiques<\/em> (2009, Mati Diop)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Serigne boarded a pigogue heading to Spain and died on the way. However, Serigne sits around the fire with a couple of friends detailing the trip and his reasons for leaving. Obviously a ghostly precursor to the feature.<\/p>\n

– bonus short –<\/p>\n

Strasbourg 1518<\/em> (2020, Jonathan Glazer)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Exhausted repetitive dances in vacant domestic spaces.<\/p>\n

Faster cutting between a larger set of dancers towards the end.<\/p>\n

New music by Mica Levi is an irritating fast club beat with hints of bird calls<\/p>\n

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