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Loose Ends

1979 · 25 min

A rapid, disorienting collage of fragmented images that feels like channel-surfing through someone's subconscious, demanding close attention as it builds toward a numbing, uneasy stillness.

Directed by
Chick Strand
Starring
Marjorie Cameron
Overview
Loose Ends is a collage film about the process of internalizing the information that bombards us through a combination of personal experience and media in all forms. Speeding through our senses in ever-increasing numbers and complicated mixtures of fantasy, dream and reality from both outside and in, these fragmented images of life, sometimes shared by all, sometimes isolated and obscure, but with common threads, lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness… an insensitive un-involvement in the human condition and our own humanity. —Chick Strand

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Directed by
Chick Strand
Starring
Marjorie Cameron
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • media
  • identity
  • isolation
  • memory
  • madness
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • found footage
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Action2
Horror3
Humour2
Realism4
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity9
Emotional weight6

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Details

Directed by
Chick Strand
Written by
Chick Strand
Starring
Marjorie Cameron
Runtime
25 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, French, German

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