A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car ...
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A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she's only fooling. Those were her eyelids. Written by David Carless
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When the movie - a very short soundless abstract piece - was first exhibited, a man in the audience stood up and complained it was giving him a headache. Another man told him to shut up, and they both started to fight. They left the theater fighting and the police was called in to stop the fight. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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As explained in my review of the same film-maker's earlier and shorter THE RETURN TO REASON (1923), this is essentially an expansion of it: again, both the original, non-French title (EMAK-BAKIA) and the English moniker have no specific bearing on what we see on the screen!
Watching a number of avant-garde shorts in quick succession (culled from a Kino 2-Disc collection) is bound to make one forget to which effort a specific striking image belongs: I almost ascribed the scene involving a woman sporting a dual set of eyes (one real, one painted on her eyelids) – easily the most memorable image here – to an earlier short I had watched go figure!