Miracle
Overview
Los Angeles-based artist Ed Ruscha’s 1975 short film Miracle centers on a day in the life of an auto mechanic (played by artist Jim Ganzer), who has a transformative experience while working on the engine of a Ford Mustang. Actress and singer Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas plays his love interest. Since the 1960s, Ruscha has received extensive critical acclaim for his paintings, photographs, drawings, and books exploring the commercial vernacular of Los Angeles—its graphic signage, architecture, and even parking lots. In effect, his work subtly comments on America’s cultural and socioeconomic evolution in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Miracle is one of only two films made by the artist in the 1970s. – Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis by Kelly Shindler, Associate Curator
Release date
01/01/1975
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Original Soundtrack
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American Graffiti
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Austin Powers in Goldmember
Don't Make Waves
Forever Never Anywhere
Ghostbusters II
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Over Her Dead Body
Venus
The Doom Generation
Le Divorce
The Parent Trap
Stranger Than Fiction
Occurrences of Questionable Significance
Where the Heart Is
Burning
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