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Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper
Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper
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VARIATIONS ON A CELLOPHANE WRAPPER

Directed by David Rimmer
Canada, 1970
Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

Newly restored by the Academy Film Archive, David Rimmer’s 1970 avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations.

Synopsis

Newly restored by the Academy Film Archive, David Rimmer’s 1970 avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations.