Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia

Hapax Legomena I: Nostalgia
  • Release date: 21 Jan 1971
  • Release year: 1971
  • Runtime: 36 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: national film registry, experimental short, independent short, photograph, photography, avant garde short, metronome, narration, hot plate, burning a photograph
Plot:
Thirteen different black-and-white photographs are laid down on a hotplate, one by one. As each slowly burn and melt up one by one, stories and memories of the different subject are provided by narration, written in first-person to imply the filmmaker is speaking. Subjects include a man on a bed, a smoking man, a shot through a window, etc.
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