Short film
Gauze
1969 · 8 min
A slow, hypnotic endurance test of a body doing something strange, more experiment than entertainment.
- Directed by
- Bruce Nauman
- Overview
- In this film, Nauman, bit by bit, pulls five or six yards of gauze from his mouth. Along with Black Balls and Pulling Mouth, it is one of the "Slo-Mo" films that he shot with an industrial high speed camera.
- How it feels
- Eerie, absurd and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Obsession, isolation, identity
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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