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3.5
11 Ratings

Compound Eyes Nos. 1-5

Directed by Paul Clipson
United States, 2011
Short, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

A short film studying aspects of insect and animal life, viewed within a succession of environments in unexpected ways.

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Compound Eyes Nos. 1-5 Directed by Paul Clipson
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Awards & Festivals

The New York Film Festival

2011

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

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What are people saying?

  • Karthik's rating of the film Compound Eyes Nos. 1-5

    Karthik

    An attempt to defamiliarize vision that uses as its tether the 'other' eyes that look upon our lived space, the eyes of insects, spiders, fish etc. For me the more successful films attempt less by way of conscious trope (e.g. the compound eyes of the skyscraper in Odonata) but give themselves up to their own imaginative energies (e.g. No. 5 that sets the cold subaqueous eye behind the frenzy of urban lights)

    September 27, 2013 18:50

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