Theodore Roosevelt

  • Bruce Conner – A Movie (1958)

    1951-1960Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtBruce ConnerExperimentalUSA

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    The singular title of Bruce Conner’s A Movie positions this avant-garde short as though it were a prototypical example for the entire medium. In fact, Conner’s film is the self-conscious inheritor of a particular tradition within the movies, a particular use to which moving pictures have been put: the filmic spectacle. Where Conner’s film, constructed entirely from a wide variety of found footage, diverges from this tradition is in its recognition that in spectacle, the content hardly matters so much as the sensations conveyed through the film.Read More »

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