“I caught a glimpse of one of these visits on an old Super-8 film, in which the misery of an Iranian delegate, a non-swimmer, his head poking tortoise-like from the top of a very large life vest, is unmistakable.”
“Movies are among the most fragile of art forms, and avant-garde films are among the most fragile of movies. Usually made on delicate, narrow-gauge stock (16 millimeter, 8 millimeter and Super 8, formats made virtually obsolete by video), printed directly from the original camera materials and distributed informally in a small number of copies, many of the avant-garde films of the 20th century have become difficult to see in anything like their original state.”
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