- A Movie
"A Movie" (1958) is an
experimental film in whichBruce Conner put together snippets of found footage, taken fromB-movies ,newsreels , soft-corepornography , noveltyshort film s, and other sources, to a musical score featuringRespighi 's "The Pines of Rome ".The film is associational, in which a number of narratively and spatially unrelated shots from a number of sources are edited together to evoke emotions and make thematic points. "A Movie" consists of many shots of animals and people moving quickly, precariously balanced objects, cars and people crashing, and, perhaps most importantly, violence and war. This film is generally viewed as a metaphorical commentary on humanity's violent nature. The film has also been described as a metaphor for sex where the men traveling are the sperm, ending with a scuba diver, representing the sperm reaching the egg.
In 1991, "A Movie" was selected for preservation in the United States
National Film Registry by theLibrary of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".External links
*imdb title|id=0051952|title=A Movie
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