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Poster for Cheers

Cheers

1968 · 3 min

A tiny conceptual light play that asks you to watch the beam and the room as much as the flickering line.

Directed by
Ernst Schmidt Jr.
Overview
This is a film with minimal content. Using a film pen, a line was drawn across a strip of clear leader, until it hit the edge of the frame ("cheers"), and then the line was drawn back to the other side ("cheers"), etc. This strip functioned as the film negative. The projection is the drawn out line as a white line that wanders back and forth, bringing light and darkness into the theater. Because of this one should not only watch the movie screen, but also the light that comes out of the projector and the reflections in the theater. A "light play." (E.S.jr.)

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Directed by
Ernst Schmidt Jr.
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Tone
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
Places
None
Era
timeless
Audience
adult
Form
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour2
Realism3
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity6
Emotional weight2

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Details

Directed by
Ernst Schmidt Jr.
Runtime
3 min
Country
Austria

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