Hackney Marshes – November 4th 1977 (1977)
• January 1st, 1977 • 0h 15min
Documentary
Overview
An improvisation recorded over the course of one day, starting at dawn and finishing after dusk. The film was edited in camera and shot from one camera position in the middle of one of the 112 football pitches that cover Hackney Marsh, a location chosen because of the similarities between the surrounding buildings and objects (identical blocks of flats, goalposts etc.). By cutting between precisely matched framings of similar objects, illusions of movement were produced, disrupting representational readings of the landscape. Unforeseen events occurring in the vicinity were also recorded, determining to some extent the subsequent filming. Through selection of shots and changes in cutting pace and speed of camera movement, the film fluctuates between record and abstraction.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Where are the African Gods?
Released on: 2018-03-26
Documentary
A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new...
Wè
Released on: 2021-02-03
Documentary
As Black and LGBTQ+ History Month begin this February, material science clothing brand PANGAIA leads...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Released on: 2021-03-01
Documentary
Taking its title from the poem by Wallace Stevens, the film is composed of a series of attempts at l...
Visibles
Released on: 2018-07-17
Documentary
Society has created a stereotype of the LGTBQ collective in which its members are young people who a...
Let Us Persevere in What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
Released on: 2013-07-04
Documentary
On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted an...
Arabian Coffee
Released on: 1968-01-01
Documentary
'Coffea arábiga' was sponsored as a propaganda documentary to show how to sow coffee around Havana. ...
On the Heights All Is Peace
Released on: 1998-01-01
Documentary
Found footage anti-war film comprising film documents of the Austro-Hungarian and Italian army on th...
The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat
Released on: 1896-06-30
Documentary
A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...
Night and Fog
Released on: 1959-04-27
Documentary, History
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Land Without Bread
Released on: 1933-12-01
Documentary
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Birdman
Released on: 2015-07-01
Documentary
A portrait of Robert, a troubled but poetic soul struggling with his purgatorial existence in a hack...
Chinese Ping-Pong
Released on: 1972-03-22
Documentary
An experimental sports film made partly during the Scandinavian Open Championships in Halmstad in 19...
With Love from Truman
Released on: 1966-01-01
Documentary
At his Long Island beach house, and on the occasion of the publication of his masterful nonfiction n...
Congo
Released on: 1972-01-01
Documentary
An experimental ethnographic documentary that criticizes the colonizer view of anthropology.
Hurricane on the Bayou
Released on: 2006-07-29
Documentary
The film "Hurricane on the Bayou" is about the wetlands of Louisiana before and after Hurricane Katr...
Vios
Released on: 2019-04-22
Documentary
“At which point do you let go?…” – This is the central question of “Vios”, a short documentary that ...
Mysteries of the Unseen World
Released on: 2013-11-01
Documentary
Mysteries of the Unseen World transports audiences to places on this planet that they have never bee...
A Fire
Released on: 1961-04-01
Documentary
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), formed upon nationalization of the British Anglo-Iranian Oi...
A Trip to Paramountown
Released on: 1922-07-10
Documentary
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat...
Joseph Cornell: Worlds in a Box
Released on: 1991-11-29
Documentary
This is a 1991 documentary film about the legendary artist and filmmaker, Joseph Cornell, who made t...