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To Pour Milk into a Glass

1972 · 7 min

A cool, clinical experiment that turns one mundane gesture into a slow study of repetition, variation and the mechanics of looking itself.

Overview
A simple gesture, introduced in the very title of the work, is repeated with slight variations – the glass is half filled, the content overflows, the glass breaks, the milk spills on the table – and constitutes the film’s only action. Lamelas rejects any type of narration or human presence, and the filmic code – reduced and dissected – comprises the only argument.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 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
  • art
  • obsession
  • identity
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance0
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity8
Emotional weight3

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Details

Directed by
David Lamelas
Runtime
7 min
Country
United Kingdom

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