Sunday 21 October 2007

Esse est percipi


Samuel Beckett, who wrote a play entitled Play, also scripted a short film called Film. Made in 1965, it stars Buster Keaton - in his last major role before his death - as a man feverishly trying not to be seen, above all by the camera, or rather by an entity whose point of view corresponds to that of the camera. The film is completely silent (there's a "Shhh!" at one point, they say, but I can't hear it) and is presented here in three instalments of six minutes each.





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