Black
2015 · 5 min · ★ 7.2
Simultaneously boundless and intimate, collective and personal, an ode to and an example of a cinematic experience that is becoming increasingly rare, the darkness of a movie theatre in the course of the projection of a 35mm film print.
Directed by Anouk de Clercq
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