Five seconds on the death of cinema as we have known it. As the filmmakers say (in a statement which takes longer to read than the film takes to view):
In this terrible job market with bleak prospects, in a world where film projection is getting replaced by slick machine-operated digital projection, in a culture where black-and-white silent film is all but lost to the winds of time … one doofus with a tie and a poignancy-starved cineaste found magic together. But then everything caught on fire.
One of a long series of 5-second films made by 5secondfilms.com.
Shouldn’t this be narrated by a benshi?
Bob
I like the reference to shadowgraphy or shadows on a screen – witting or unwitting? They’ve bundled up quite a lot of cinema history into their five seconds.