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An experimental short film that recontextualizes a decomposed 1926 silent movie through synchronized jazz music and avant-garde editing.
Drama · 8/10 · 16 min · 2003
Made by re-editing a deteriorated nitrate print of The Bells (1926), starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff, this work shows the fragility of the film image while foreshadowing the Holocaust.