Artificial Light (1969): cast, story & where to watch
1969 · Film · ★ 5.8
Released in 1969, Artificial Light is a notable film directed by Hollis Frampton.
What it’s about. Artificial Light repeats variations on a single filmic utterance twenty times. The same phrase is a series of portrait shots of a group of young New York artists talking, drinking wine, laughing, smoking, informally. The individual portrait-shots follow each other with almost academic smoothness in lap-dissolves ending in two shots of the entire group followed by a dolly shot into a picture of the moon... There is a chasm between the phrase and its formal inflections. That chasm is intellectual as well as formal. Frampton loves an outrageous hypothesis; his films, all of them, take the shape of logical formulae. -- P. Adams Sitney, Film Culture Reader
How it landed. With an audience score of 5.8/10, Artificial Light has drawn a solid, mixed-to-positive response.
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- Where can I watch Artificial Light (1969)?
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- Is Artificial Light worth watching?
- Artificial Light holds an audience score of 5.8 out of 10. Reactions are mixed, so it may depend on taste.
- When was Artificial Light released?
- Artificial Light was released in 1969.