Movie

Portraits

1970 · 14 min

A cool, experimental study of faces and film grain that rewards patient attention with unsettling perceptual shifts.

Overview: The series of portrait films that the Heins made between 1970-73 attest to their deepening interest in the movement generated solely through cinematic processes of reproduction. [...] Portraits (1970) is a collection of three of these films, Manson, Biggs, and Wilhelm Hein, that each underwent distinct processes of development so as to highlight different perceptual and aesthetic effects.

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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
obsession
art
media
memory
Places: None
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	0
Horror	3
Humour	1
Realism	6
Romance	0
Tension	4
Darkness	5
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	3

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