Movie: Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper

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    David Rimmer's avant-garde classic takes a single film fragment of a factory worker unraveling a sheet of cellophane, and alters it through a mesmerizing series of spectral apparitions and alchemical and sonic permutations. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

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    1970-01-05

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    6.2

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