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Filmmaker Martin Arnold, born in Vienna in 1959, takes this trend in bizarre new directions in a series of short blackandwhite experimental films that restore much of the novelty, terror, and surprisingly, humor, of early cinema. Using elaborate optical and aural manipulations, he turns scenes from old Hollywood movies starring the likes of Judy Garland and Gregory Peck into hilariously weird, blackcomic nightmares. The footage he quotes is in itself unremarkable a man walking into a room where a woman is reading, a middleclass meal, a romantic interlude between Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney but he does ultraprecise framebyframe edits that endlessly repeat the characters tiniest movements, so theyre constantly, frustratingly on the verge of something that never seems to materialize. For some viewers, these compulsive repetitions will have the effect The Exorcist did on some terrified Catholics; others will find Arnolds sleightofhand hypnotic and rewarding.

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