Film

Film
  • Release date: 8 Jan 1966
  • Release year: 1965
  • Runtime: 20 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: fear, checking pulse, stare, photograph, perception, tearing up a photograph, experimental short, independent short, silent short, eye
Plot:
A twenty-minute, almost totally silent film (no dialogue or music, save one 'shhh!') in which Buster Keaton attempts to evade observation by an all-seeing eye. But, as the film is based around Bishop Berkeley's principle 'esse est percipi' (to be is to be perceived), Keaton's very existence conspires against his efforts
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