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C-Film
UNITED STATES · 1970

C-Film

Stephen Dwoskin
experimental cinema female identity self-reflection performativity meta-filmmaking
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Synopsis

Two women in a living room: smoking, playing cards, listening to the radio. As often in Dwoskin’s films, the use of masks, make-up and costumes allows the characters to playfully transform themselves. Shot in colour film, C-film exuberates swinging London energy. In the second part of the film, the women appear to be watching the rushes of the film on an editing table. ”We are making a movie” we h

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