Robert Blankshine

  • Milton Moses Ginsberg – Coming Apart (1969)

    1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtArthouseDramaMilton Moses GinsbergUSA

    From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
    This powerful, unsettling film elevates voyeurism to its central element in a series of raw sexual encounters reflected in an apartment mirror, from which a hidden camera records its images. The lustful sex turns increasingly pathetic and the mirror is finally smashed in despair. The “playing” on reality — the entire film is staged, the mirror thus reflecting a double illusion — is eminently modern and structural, as is the camera’s passive immobility, with action at times leaving the frame or the film “running out”.Read More »

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