Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc. (1966)

Film in Which There Appear... is a six-minute loop of the double-printed image of a "China girl" or "Shirley card", her image off-center, making visible the sprocket holes and edge lettering on the film. According to Land, within the loop, "no development in the dramatic or musical sense" occurs. Fred Camper described Film in Which There Appear... as "a kind of Duchampian found object, a [...] film that focuses attention on the medium and the viewer." There also exists a 20-minute "widescreen version" involving two prints of the film projected side-by-side, with the left print flipped horizontally so that the "China girl" forms an almost complete face in the center.

Released

1966-11-11

Genres

Documentary

Runtime

6 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Owen Land

TMDB rating

4.5/10 from 25 votes