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Surface Tension (1968)
Visual Curiosity / acute chronological restructuring
Very beautiful film expressing the relationship of several visual motifs to sound. The other reviewers exclaiming that the film is "trying too hard to be avant garde" need to understand that this film is from 1968...it was the avant garde. The other films you see that seem like this one have been influenced by films like this by Frampton and his contemporaries. The pixilation is skillfully done and brings the eye to a delightful frenzy towards the middle of the second story, and the calm grey with the orange goldfish of the last story. I thought it was interesting that the first story had one subject and a static background with the clocks indicating a passage of time and that the last story had words flashing instead, almost an incoherent message. Meanwhile the verbal supply in the middle was from the audio. Very interesting film. Would recommend to fans of experimental film...