The Sequence of Parallel Bars
1992 · 8 min · ★ 3.2 · Drama
The film opens with a rubber-clad woman stepping sensuously out of a limousine. The camera lovingly closes-up on her stilletoed foot... She enters a dark desolate warehouse, and meets two men, who proceed to chain her up and worship her body. Originally projected on three screens simultaneously. Music by legendary noise musician Merzbow.
Directed by Aryan Kaganof
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Gabrielle Provaas R. -
Theo van Gogh The Corpulent Man - J Jan Willem Winter The Squatting Man
- J J. Bergamin The Chauffeur
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1993
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2011
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